Jackie Cosse

Jackie Cosse

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PhD Candidate

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publications

Deconstructing Latinx racial paradigms : cross-cultural constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American racial identity

Published in Smith College School for Social Work, 2016

[1-2 line description TBA]. Recipient of the Smith College Alumni Association Thesis Award for Students of Color.

Recommended citation: Cosse, Jacqueline I., "Deconstructing Latinx racial paradigms : cross-cultural constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American racial identity." (2016). Masters Thesis, Smith College, Northampton, MA. https://scholarworks.smith.edu/theses/1710
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Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults

Published in Social Science and Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, 2024

A qualitative study examining how multiplicatively marginalized LGBTQ adults (across disability, race, sexuality, gender, class, and more) conceptualize health, tracing how participant constructions reflect personal, social, cultural, and political subjectivities alongside, against, and beyond institutionalized discourses of health and illness.

Recommended citation: Cosse, J., Hudson, K., & Romanelli, M. (2024). Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100395.
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“we need a r/evolution”: Transformational Resistance as a Framework in Advancing ADEI in Social Work Education

Published in Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, 2026

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Recommended citation: Maglalang, D. D., Flores, A. T., Godoy, S. M., Cosse, J., Mabrouk, F. A., La Torre, J. C., & Irsheid, S. B.(2026). "we need a r/evolution" :Transformational Resistance as a Framework in Advancing ADEI in Social Work Education. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, 4(1).
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teaching

Social Deviance & Taboos

Undergraduate course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work; open to all NYU students across schools, 2024

Instructor. The purpose of this course is to explore and better understand, from a social work perspective, what behaviors, identities, practices, and experiences are categorized as socially deviant and taboo in society. Students utilize a diverse range of theories on deviance to collectively examine how social deviance and taboos are defined, determined, and socially/historically constructed. Emphasis is placed on how deviance has historically been used as a tool to systemically mark certain groups as “other,” denying them access to power, resources, and full social belonging.

Love and Relationships

Undergraduate course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work; open to all NYU Students, 2026

Taught Fall 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Instructor & Course Developer (rebuilt course from inherited 2023 syllabus). This course examines the practice of love and relationships through a critical social work lens, emphasizing how intimacy, care work, and connection are shaped by structural power. Drawing on Black feminist thought, disability justice scholarship, and related critical frameworks, students analyze both dominant and counter-hegemonic narratives of love and relationships while exploring liberatory approaches to belonging. Course discussions and assignments are grounded in social work’s ethical commitments to relational practice, social justice, and the promotion of individual and collective well-being across practice contexts.

Advanced Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Populations

MSW Course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work, 2027

Instructor and Course Developer.. This course prepares students for grounded, relational social work practice with LGBTQ communities across micro and macro contexts. Students examine how gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped by systemic harm and sociopolitical violence and consider the implications for client experiences and care. Drawing on critical theories across disciplines, this course (1) centers positionality and transference/countertransference in relational work, and (2) interrogates resilience as both a contested concept and a site of survival, attending to the complexities of client experiences for LGBTQ populations. Through collective reflection and creative practice, students develop approaches to clinical work that transform conditions of care within oppressive sociopolitical systems.

Test Guest Lecture

Test, Test University School of Testing, 2027

This course prepares students for testing.