Dr. R. Nanre Nafziger
History education (focus on African/Black histories), Black Studies in Education, African Education, Black/African Social Movements, Social Justice, Education Policy, Political Economy of Education, Youth Activism and Civic Engagement, Black/African Feminisms, Participatory Research, Critical Education Studies, Critical Policy studies
Nanre Nafziger is an educator-organizer-scholar who serves her various communities through writing, research, teaching, and pan-Africanist organizing. Nanre’s research contributes to debates and collective knowledge production in the areas of critical education policy studies, Black/African Studies in Education, decolonial approaches to education, global critical race theory, critical youth studies, Black/Africana social movements, youth participatory action research; and the role of civil society in education and democratic nation-building in the Global South.
- PhD Education Theory and Policy/Comparative and International Education (dual title), Pennsylvania State University
- MSC Health Policy Planning and Financing, London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- MEd Education (Sociology), Obafemi Awolowo University
- BA Sociology, Boston College
- Nafziger, R. N. (2024). The Journey Within: Inner Resonances of Doctoral Soundings. In First-Gen Docs (pp. 115-129). Brill.
- Nafziger, R. N., Strong, K., & Tarlau, R. (2023). ‘We bring in each other's wisdom’: liberatory praxis and political education for Black lives in Philadelphia. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(5), 609-627.
- Nafziger, R. N., & Strong, K. (2022). To end SARS or start a revolution? Class contradictions of youth within the# EndSARS rebellion. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, 32(1), 74-101.
- Nafziger, R. N. (2022). Crossing the great divide: Youth historical consciousness as a bridge to civic identity in urban conflict zones in Jos, Nigeria. In Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change (pp. 203-224). Routledge.
- Strong, K., & Nafziger, R. N. (2022). Education for Black liberation: Freire and past/present pan-Africanist experiments. Current Issues in Comparative Education, https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/0vk7-9k38
Courses taught:
EDEC 575 Special Topics: African/Black Social Movements and Social Change
EDEC 249 Global Education and Social Justice
EDEC 643 Women, Education and Development
I am currently accepting students who work in areas of mutual interest.