Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D.
Professor of the Practice
Senior Associate Director, Academic Affairs
Professor of the Practice
Senior Associate Director, Academic Affairs
Connie Snyder Mick is senior associate director and director of academic affairs at the Institute for Social Concerns where she directs the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Mick teaches Introduction to Poverty Studies and Research and Writing for Social Change. At Westville Correctional Facility, she teaches Poverty & Justice: Inside-Out with “outside” students from Notre Dame, Holy Cross College, and Saint Mary’s College and “inside” students incarcerated in the prison or working as corrections staff.
Mick’s research addresses the role of writing in social change, the rhetoric of poverty, and the pedagogies of community engagement. She edits the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy (Wiley) and the Enacting Catholic Social Teaching series (Liturgical Press). Her books include Poverty/Privilege: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Good Writing: An Argument Rhetoric (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her research appears in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; Service-Learning: Enhancing Inclusive Education; TESOL Journal; Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction; and Service-Learning to Advance Access and Success. Her essay “Letting the Light In,” exploring how poverty imprisons us, appears in the winter 2025 issue of Notre Dame Magazine.
Mick received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Loyola University, Chicago, her M.A. in English Literature from Boston College, and her B.A. in English from Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.