Tameka Battle

Contact Us

Room: M-Building, M-204
Phone: (718) 482-5940
naturalsci@lagcc.cuny.edu

Monday- Thursday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Education

Ed.D. in Executive Leadership, St. John Fisher University
M.A. in Therapeutic Recreation Administration & Services, New York University
B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation, Lincoln University of PA

Areas of Expertise or Research

Community and public health disparities
Recreational therapy practice
Relational mentoring
Critical race theory in higher education
Academic integrity

About

Dr. Tameka S. Battle is a Professor of Community Health and Wellness, the Director of the Therapeutic Recreation program, and Interim Director of the Public and Community Health Program. She is also the college’s Chief Academic Integrity Officer. Dr. Battle’s collaborative research primarily focuses on evidence-based practice, community health education, and cultural competency in health and human services practice.

Dr. Battle’s scholarship combines the intersectionality of social justice discourse, COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter to address mental and public health disparities and inequities in marginalized communities. Dr. Battle has published scholarly research on relational mentoring among Black women in academia, critical race theory, and the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism in adult education.

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Dr. Battle was selected as a 2023-2024 CUNY Career Success Fellow & 2023-2024 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Faculty fellow with the BRES Collaboration Hub at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. As a BRES Curriculum Development Faculty Fellow, her collaborative scholarship resulted in the development of a course centered on anti-racist methodologies and research ethics for community participatory-engaged research which supports narratives that are rooted and based on ancestral and generational cognizance, lived experiences, and chronicled history that is embedded in social justice from a racial and ethnic perspective that will help to deepen understanding of diverse perspectives and converging viewpoints.

Select publications of Dr. Battle include:

Nicholson, W. M., & Battle, T. S. (2021). Adult education amidst dual pandemics: Community college survival. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 6(2), Article A1153
Battle, T. (2020). COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: Using Social Justice to Navigate Discourse in Recreational Therapy. ATRA Newsletter, 36(3), 1-5.
Battle, T. (2020). Black women community college professors’ perceptions of relationalmentoring and achieving tenure. Doctoral Dissertation/SJFC Fisher Digital Publications.
Battle, T. (2019). “Black Feminist Thought: A Response to White Fragility” by Michele D. Smith and Mia Niguel Moore, Chapter 5 of Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons. In-Transit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning, 9, 175-177. Long Island City, NY: LaGuardia Community College.
Battle, T., Best-Martini, E.; Weeks, M.; Wirth, P. (2018). Long Term Care for Activity
Professionals, Social Services Professionals and Recreation Therapists 7th Edition-Chapter 4 of >Cultural Competency. Enumclaw, WA: Idyll Arbor, Inc.
Battle, T.; Eynon, B.; Chandler, L.; Radhakrishnan, P.; Quish, E. (2016). “Now I Know Who I Am as a Student: Educationally Effective Practices in the LaGuardia First Year Seminar” National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition. University of South Carolina.