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- Rankin, Y. A., & Thomas, J. O. (2019). Straighten Up and Fly Right: Rethinking Intersectionality in HCI. ACM Interactions, 26(6), 64-68.
- Thomas, J., & Rankin, Y. A. (2019). Exploring Collaborative Talk Among African-American Middle-School Girls in the Context of Game Design for Social Change. Journal of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, 35(4), 80-89.
- Thomas, J. O., Rankin, Y. A., Minor, R. & Li, Sun (2017) Exploring the Difficulties African-American Middle School Girls Face Enacting Computational Algorithmic Thinking Over Three Years While Designing Games for Social Change. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work Volume 26 Issue 4-6, December 2017, pp. 389-421.
- Rankin, Y. A. & Thomas, J. O. (Eds.)(2017). Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology. IGI Global Publishers Hershey, PA. (book)
- Rankin, Y. A. & Thomas, J. O. (2017). Leveraging Food as the Context for Developing Computational Algorithmic Thinking in an Entry Level College Course. In Y. A. Rankin & J. O. Thomas (Eds.) Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology. IGI Global Publishers Hershey, PA. (book chapter)
- Rankin, Y.A. (2016). Diversity by Design: Designing Inclusive Language Learning Video Games. In Conference Proceedings for ACM SIGCHI 2016, San Jose, CA May 7 – 12, 2016. Acceptance rate of 23%.
- Rankin, Y., Irish, I., Thomas, J. O. & Hawkins, S. (2014). From Consumers to Producers: African-American Middle School Students as Game Designers. In T. Barnes & I. Bogost (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 3-7, 2014
Grants & Awards
- 2020 NSF Examining Factors that Build a Sisterhood in Computing
- 2017 NSF EAGER Grant Computer-Based Social Interactions to Facilitate Language Learning
- 2016 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
- 2005 – 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
- 2004 – 2008 NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Fellow
