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L. Boyd Bellinger, PhD

Thesis & Dissertation Specialist

Pronouns: he/him/his

Contact

Building & Room:

UH 611

Office Phone:

312-413-2559

Selected Publications

Bellinger, L. B. (2024). “All are welcome”? Unpacking struggles for hegemony in urban public libraries [Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois Chicago]. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.27153225

Romeo, K. E., Chico, E., Darcangelo, N., Bellinger, L. B., & Horn, S. S. (2017). Youth’s motivations for using homophobic and misogynistic language. Journal of LGBT Youth, 14(4), 411–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2017.1365036

Bellinger, L. B., & Meiners, E. (2017). Transgender studies. In K. L. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender (pp. 1725–1727). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483384269

Bellinger, L. B., Darcangelo, N., Horn, S., Meiners, E., & Schriber, S. (2016). Ecologies of school discipline: What listening to LGBT youth teaches us about transforming school discipline. In R. J. Skiba, K. Mediratta, & M. K. Rausch (Eds.), Inequality in school discipline: Research and practice to reduce disparities (pp. 135–152). Palgrave Macmillan.

Fischer, D., Bellinger, L. B., Horn, S., & Sullivan, S. (2016). Advocacy to support gender identity development in schools in the face of organized backlash. In S. T. Russell & S. Horn (Eds.), Sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling: The nexus of research practice and policy (pp. 219–237). Oxford University Press.

Schriber, S., Horn, S., Peter, C., Bellinger, L. B., & Fischer, D. (2016). Supporting LGB/T students: Comprehensive School Transformation as effective bullying prevention. In S. T. Russell & S. Horn (Eds.), Sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling: The nexus of research practice and policy (pp. 75–95). Oxford University Press.

Notable Honors

2025, Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Certificate of Merit, Library History Round Table of the American Library Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Policy Studies in Urban Education (Social Foundations of Education), University of Illinois Chicago
Master of Education, Instructional Leadership (Education Studies), University of Illinois Chicago
Master of Library and Information Science, University of Washington
Artium Baccalaureus, Theatre, Middlebury College (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)