Quortne R. Hutchings

Associate Professor

Department

Counseling and Higher Education (CAHE)

Teaching and Research Interests

Quortne R. Hutchings (they, them) is a first-generation college graduate, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor in higher education. Quortne teaches courses on college student development, qualitative methodology, teaching and learning pedagogies, and dissertation proposal writing. Quortne introspectively and intentionally teaches and examines higher education as a critical researcher and educator with an equity praxis lens. Quortne introspectively and intentionally teaches and examines higher education with an equity praxis lens as a critical researcher and educator. Their teaching centers change and evolve of colleges and universities to meet their most marginalized communities' needs through transformative educational and engagement practices.

Their research primarily focuses on Black gay, bisexual, queer, and non-binary undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and social experiences in higher education, student affairs professionals’ experiences in student and academic affairs, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff experiences with substance use and recovery, and utilizing critical qualitative methodologies. Quortne is a practitioner-scholar in student and academic affairs, having professional experiences in academic advising, orientation, multicultural affairs, TRiO programs, and leadership development. Their research has been published in the Journal of College Student Development, International Journal of STEM Education, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Journal of Higher Education, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Quortne is an active member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) within the Mentor Protégé Program (MPP). They are also members of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the American Education Research Association (AERA).

Select Recent Publications

Blockett, R. A., Hutchings, Q. R., Brown, J., & Patton, L. D. (2024). Black queer men transgressing masculine normativity. Journal of Higher Education, 1–24.

Hutchings, Q. R. & Thomas, J. (2024). The resistance is always Black and queer: Leadership as resistance in Black male initiative and men of color mentorship programs. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 17(1), 7-25.

Hutchings, Q. R. (2023). For me, us, our community: a kiki methodology of Black queer storytelling. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 12(4), 6-28.

Hutchings, Q. R., Franco-Carrera, L. & Noriega, C. (2023). An Empty Promise: Experiences of minoritized student affairs professionals. College Student Affairs Journal, 41(2), 83-96.

Hutchings, Q. R. (2023). Mentoring being Black and queer: Staff/faculty experiences in mentorship programs. Journal of College Student Development, 64(5), 589-593.

Hutchings, Q. R. & Morgan, D. L. (2023). Our students…our campus…their community: Analyzing institutional civic engagement websites. Innovative Higher Education.

Hutchings, Q. R. (2023). Blackness preferred, queerness deferred: Navigating sense of belonging Black male initiative and men of color mentorship programs. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 1-13. Advance online publication.

Duran, A., Hutchings, Q. R., Blockett, R. A., & Jackson, R. (2022). Envisioning the future of queer of color critique in higher education: Mobilizing the framework in research. Journal of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education and Student Affairs, 6(3), 18-32.

Lopez, N. L., Morgan, D. L., Hutchings, Q. R., & Davis, K. (2022). Revisiting critical STEM interventions: A literature review of STEM organizational learning.International Journal of STEM Education, 9(1), 1-14.

Hall, T. A. & Hutchings, Q. R. (2022). Claiming our truth: Exploring Black queer kinship through autoethnographic dialogues. Journal of Autoethnography, 2(3), 245-249.

Education

• Ph.D., Higher Education, Loyola University Chicago
• M.Ed., Education, Organization, and Leadership, concentration in Higher Education, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• B.A., African and African-American Studies, minors in Sociology and Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University

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