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Director
Dr. Handel Kashope Wright
Handel Kashope Wright is Canada Research Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies, David Lam Chair of Multicultural Education, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and professor in the Educational Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, Handel’s first degree was a BA (Hons.) in English from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He did his graduate studies in Canada (MA English- University of Windsor, MEd- Queen’s University, Ph.D. Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). He then moved to the United States where he taught at the University of Tennessee for several years before his return to Canada in 2005. Handel’s principal activist and progressive community organizing work is with the Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee, where he serves on the executive committee of the Center’s working board of directors. He is co-editor of International Education, and serves on the editorial board of several cultural studies and education journals including Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Topia, Critical Arts, the Canadian Journal of Education and the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education. He has published extensively on African and diasporic cultural studies, cultural studies of education, post-reconceptualization curriculum theorizing, critical multiculturalism, anti-racist education and qualitative research. His recent publications include A Prescience of African Cultural Studies (Lang, 2004), and several edited and co-edited journal issues, including a co-edited themed issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 26, 2-3, 2004 on Cultural Studies and Education; a co-edited themed issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education on Paradigm Proliferation in Educational Research; and an edited themed issue of International Education, 36, 1, 2006 on Africans and Western Discourses of Empowerment.
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Graduate Research Assistant
Maryam nabavi
Maryam Nabavi is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies. Her academic and professional background has intersected in the areas of anti-oppression research, policy and activism. Her interests in social justice education and transformative learning drive her research in the areas of citizenship engagement, global education, and leadership. Maryam has (co)published on youth activism and anti-colonialism and has completed her Masters in Adult Education and Community Development at OISE/UT, focusing on Comparative and International Development Education. She is also a firm believer that dreaming is essential to creating cultures of equality where social norms are challenged and individuals realize their potential for harvesting change. Her work with the Centre involves data collection and analysis for the "Expressing and Exploring Youth Identities in a Multicultural Context" Research Project.
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Graduate Research Assistant
Caroline Rueckert
Caroline Rueckert is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. Her research interests are in a hybrid cultural studies, critical multiculturalism, and postcolonial & feminist approaches to diversity and pedagogy. Her thesis work focuses on affect and the ways in which emotions are bound up with stories of justice and injustice. In addition to her scholarly work, Caroline is the co-author of The Study Abroad Handbook (Palgrave 2007) and the editor of Tools for Equity in the Classroom, an online resource manual for student teachers. Her work with the Centre includes everything from design and organizing of symposia to the design, management and updating of the CCIE website, from research on recent developments in multiculturalism and multicultural education to contributions to the organization of the CCIE research space.
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NCIE SUPPOrt staff
Ulrike Spitzer,
Joanne O'Connor, Carole Wallace and Judy Paley
The NCIE administrative team provides support services and program activities for CCIE.
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