Academic Work
Greenfield Community College
Dr. Leo Hwang is the Dean of Humanities, Engineering, Math, and Science at Greenfield Community College. He also coordinates the college’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; the college’s innovation initiatives; and is co-chair of the college’s Diversity Committee.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Hwang is particularly interested in using asset based community development as a model for enhancing how we engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion work and exploring how to connect anti-racism work and dismantling the culture of white supremacy with the Community Economies theoretical stances. He is also developing adaptations of using participatory action research methodologies to give agency to students and community members who are engaged in co-creating the world we wish to inhabit.
Creative Economy
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts in Geosciences with a focus on utilizing participatory action research to better understand the diverse community economies of artists and artisans in Franklin County, an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his B.A. in English and Fine Arts from the University of the South.
Recent Publications
Dr. Leo Hwang is the Dean of Humanities, Engineering, Math, and Science at Greenfield Community College. He also coordinates the college’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; the college’s innovation initiatives; and is co-chair of the college’s Diversity Committee.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Hwang is particularly interested in using asset based community development as a model for enhancing how we engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion work and exploring how to connect anti-racism work and dismantling the culture of white supremacy with the Community Economies theoretical stances. He is also developing adaptations of using participatory action research methodologies to give agency to students and community members who are engaged in co-creating the world we wish to inhabit.
Creative Economy
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts in Geosciences with a focus on utilizing participatory action research to better understand the diverse community economies of artists and artisans in Franklin County, an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his B.A. in English and Fine Arts from the University of the South.
Recent Publications
- “Focusing on Assets: Action Research for an Inclusive and Diverse Workplace,” The Handbook of Diverse Economies, J.K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombrowski (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020
- “Butler’s Tourism Area Life Cycle and Its Expansion to the Creative Economy,” The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, Lowry, SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017
- “Rethinking the Creative Economy: Utilizing Participatory Action Research to Develop the Community Economy of Artists and Artisans,” Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2013
- “Community Economies Collective: Three Members’ Research in the Solidarity Economy,” Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet, Kawano, Masterson, Teller-Elsberg (eds.), Center for Popular Economics, 2010
