academivist + educator + researcher + writer
I am an assistant professor of Education Studies at DePauw University on the traditional lands of the Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Potawatomi, and Shawnee Tribes and Nations (Greencastle, Indiana) and a research associate at the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at Nelson Mandela University on the traditional lands of the Khokhoi, San, and AmaXhosa (Port Elizabeth, South Africa). I believe that scholarship and teaching have the capacity to serve as forms of "activism," an ever-evolving means to achieving social transformation. In my research, teaching, speaking, and writing of critical comparative global ethnic studies, I aim to reimagine the contentious and oppositional meanings of "resistance" and the inherent nobility of peoples and communities "from the periphery" that are too often/solely portrayed as damaged, marginalized, and victimized. Addressing issues of (in)justice and (in)equity within in/formally designed higher education and knowledge structures of society pivot my approach. Within an inter-/trans-disciplinary realm, it is my aim to reconceptualize knowledges and practices, particularly within the context of of (in)justice. My work intersects sociologies of education and knowledge through a critical comparative global lens, activism and social movements, human rights and human rights education, media, and science and technology studies. Read More . . .
Details on the design above can be found in "Translating Black Lives Matter" blog post.
"How Racism Migrates Across Cultures" podcast interview for America's Most Challenging Issue hosted by Masud Olufani