Teaching
and
Research
My teaching and research, like the rest of my work, have largely focused on developing people’s capacity to learn and practice leadership. I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in leadership and higher education administration as well as serving as a regular guest in classes across a host of disciplines and foci. My recent research projects have focused on leadership, the liberatory nature of leadership learning for people with privileged identities, and the potential for leadership learning for building capacity for coalition and solidarity. I prefer to write with other people rather than alone and enjoy exploring new areas across disciplines with lots of possibility.
Teaching Experience
All Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021 courses online/hybrid due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Bowling Green State University
CSP 6890: Supervised Field Experience Fall/Spring 2018-2021
CSP 6970: Practicum in College Student Personnel Fall/Spring 2019-2021
CSP 6010: Foundations and Functions of College Student Personnel Fall 2018-2021
HIED 7310: Postsecondary Students in the United States Spring 2019-2021
LEAD 2020: Multicultural Leadership Fall/Spring 2019-2021
LEAD 1000: Introduction to Leadership Fall 2018 Spring 2020
CSP 6800: Colleges and Universities in Film and Fiction Spring 2020 Summer 2021
University of San Diego
LEAD 555: Leadership & Ethics Spring 2016-2017
LEAD 547: Action Research Methods Spring 2017
LEAD 350: Leadership & Group Development Spring 2015
LEAD 160: Personal Leadership Spring 2014-2015
LEAD 366: Community Engagement Spring 2014
LEAD 379: Professional Engagement Spring 2014
LEAD 150: Emerging Leaders Spring 2013
San Diego State University
CSP 310: Leadership in Educational Settings Fall 2008, 2009
Summer Bridge Preparation Program Summer 2009
GEN 100S: University Life Fall 2008
Guest Lecturer
San Diego State University
PSY 600: Graduate Research Assistant Seminar Spring, Fall 2023- 2026
SWORK 750: Advanced Field Practicum Fall 2024
CHEM 695: Graduate Education in Chemistry Fall 2023-2025
USEM1000: Pride House University Seminar Fall 2022
APR 623 Seminar: Critical Leadership Issues in Student Affairs Fall 2021
New York University
HPSE-GE 2097 Leadership in Higher Education Fall 2023
California Lutheran University
EDCG 556: Educational Leadership Fall 2022
Chapman University
MLD 629: Hot Topics in Education & Leadership Summer 2021
St. Cloud State University
CEEP 673: Issues in College Student Development Fall 2020
Escuela de Graduados en Administracion y Direccion de Empresas
Management & Leadership Skills: Identity & Diversity Fall 2019
University of Houston
HRD 6359: Trends in Organizational Learning Spring 2019
James Madison University
HRD 201: Leadership Styles, Theory, & Application Spring 2019
California State University San Marcos
WMST 351: Black Feminist Thought Spring 2017
University of San Diego
SOCI 374: Social Movements Spring 2017
SOCI 101D: Introduction to Sociology Fall 2016
SOCI 313: Sexualities Fall 2015
LEAD 594: Graduate Assistant Seminar Spring 2015
LEAD 565: Race Gender & Community Spring 2015
Bowling Green State University
CSP 6050: Capstone Seminar for College Student Personnel Spring 2014
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
Cory, E., Pruulmann Vangerfelt, P., Walsh, M. D., McLaughlin, C. P., & Foroughanfar, L. (2024). Writing the Borderlands of Desire & Distance: A Workshop in Love Letters as Research. PARSE, 19.
McLaughlin, C. P. & Newman, C. B. (2018). We could be heroes. About Campus, 22(6).
McLaughlin, C. P. (2017). Listening for what is asked: Understanding LGBT students of color needs in interacting with student affairs professionals. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 13(1).
Book Chapters
McLaughlin, C. P. (in press). What does studying greatness teach us? Higher education, great man theory, and asking critical questions about what leadership looks like. In M. Carbonara & K. Y. Colquitt (Eds.) Critical Praxis of College Men and Masculinities: Experiences at the Intersections. Emerald Publishing
Gomez, E. & McLaughlin, C. P. (accepted). Coalition in Color: Emerging Leadership, Intersectionality, and Coalition Building in Student Activism. in P. Habber-Curren (Ed.) Cases on Gender and Leadership: Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing.
McLaughlin, C. P. & Patterson, J. (accepted). Universal design and religious practice policies: A new approach for residence life policies. In J. Small (Ed.) At the intersections of everything: Religious, secular, and spiritual identities and the professionalization of higher education. Information Age Publishing.
Colquitt, K. Y. & McLaughlin, C. P. (2025). Okay, you “get it” but what will you do with it: Navigating VUCA and masculinity with college men. in U. G. Singh, C. G. Proches, A. A. James, R. Ruttenberg-Rozen (Eds.) (pp. 21-36). Higher education leadership in VUCA contexts. Emerald Publishing.
McLaughlin, C. P. (2023). Leadership in transgression: Teaching to transgress and the social change model of leadership. In C. McGregor & S. Bedi (Eds). Diverse leadership in education: Embedding practices of social justice, pp. 67-80, McGill-Queen’s University Press.
McLaughlin, C. P. & Colquitt, K. Y. (2023). Okay, you “get it”… Whiteness, masculinity, and the development of critical consciousness in leadership development. Fostering Social Justice Leaders Through the Social Action, Leadership, and Transformation (SALT) Model (New Directions for Student Leadership Series, 2023, 117). Wiley.
McLaughlin, C. P. (2020). Holding on in moments of not knowing: Disequilibrium, reflective judgment, and practicing adaptive leadership. In M. R. Johnson & K. M. Soria (Eds)., Evidence-based practices to strengthen leadership development. (New Directions for Student Leadership no. 168, pp. 53-62) Jossey-Bass.
McLaughlin, C. P. (2020). Knowing beyond the boundaries: The ongoing possibilities for the use of transgressive teaching in out-of-classroom learning spaces in higher education. In C. B. Newman, A. A. Hilton, B. Hinnant-Crawford, & S. Platt (Eds). Multicultural Education in the 21st Century: Innovative Research and Practices. Information Age Publishing.