Faculty Profile

 

 

Kevin Kumashiro

 

Asian American Studies Program
Mailing Address: University Hall, Room 1024

601 S. Morgan (MC 231) Chicago, IL 60607
Email: kevink@uic.edu
Office Phone: 312-996-8530

EDUCATION

2000 - Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Policy Studies

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Dr. Kumashiro researches approaches to teaching and teacher education that challenge different forms of oppression in schools and society, and is currently examining the politics of contemporary education policy initiatives. He is the primary investigator of a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's AANAPISI program to support the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Asian American and Pacific Islander students at UIC. He teaches courses on Asian American genders and sexualities, and Asian American youth, education, and activism.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2012 - "Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture" (Teachers College Press)

 

2010 - Teaching Towards Democracy: Educators as Agents of Change. Co-authored with W. Ayers, E. Meiners, T. Quinn, and D. Stovall. (Paradigm)

 

2008 - The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right has Framed the Debate on America's Schools (Teachers College Press). 

2007 - Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Lenses, Improbable Conversations. Co-edited by Dr. Bic Ngo. (Peter Lang)

2004 - Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice (Routledge)

 

2003 - Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists. (Haworth Press)

2002 - Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy (Routledge)

2001 - Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality (Rowman & Littlefield)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2003 - Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Troubling Education, 2002, Routledge)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

President-Elect, National Association for Multicultural Education
Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education