Monica Heilman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. She was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University Bloomington. She graduated from the University of Denver with a B.A. in Sociology and Art.
Prior to beginning her graduate career, Monica taught spent two years in South Korea under a Fulbright grant. There she taught high school English, edited and contributed to a literary magazine, and tutored North Korean defectors.
Monica’s research interests include race and ethnicity, identity, social psychology, family, education, qualitative methodologies, and arts-based research. Her current projects address how multiracial individuals navigate their identities in the context of the U.S. racial structure.
