Kamau Rashid
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy Studies with a concentration in the Sociology of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2009
• Dissertation Title: On Education and Social Power: The Educational Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and Their Relevance to African-Centered Education
Master’s Degree in Inner-City Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, 2002
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1998
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Professor and Founding Director, Leadership, Equity, & Inquiry, Ed.D. program, Northeastern Illinois University, 2021-present
• Lead development of the university’s first doctoral program
• Coordinated a faculty advisory committee which supported program development
• Implemented a community advisory group to solicit community feedback and support for the doctoral program
• Worked with a market research firm to assess key factors and challenges pertaining to the doctoral program
• Responsible for program design, budget development, and formulating key institutional and program policies
• Lead curriculum design and course development initiatives
• Courses designed
o LEI 601: Doctoral Seminar 1
o LEI 602: Doctoral Seminar 2
o LEI 603: Doctoral Seminar 3
o LEI 611: Globalization and Education
o LEI 620: Social-Historical Perspectives on Urban Education
o LEI 690: Dissertation Proposal Seminar
o LEI 699: Dissertation
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations and Inquiry, National-Louis University, 2015-2021
• Developed a proposal for a Global Policy Studies doctoral program
• Designed and revised graduate courses
• Developed and taught on-line and blended courses
• Advised Curriculum Advocacy and Policy doctoral students
• Chaired and served on dissertation committees
• Served on admissions committees for the Teaching and Learning doctoral program
• Courses taught:
o CCD 690: Race, Ethnicity, and Education
o CCD 630: Education in a Global World
o CSI 601: Cultures of Schools and Communities
o ESR 514: Researchers in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers
o ESR 604: Dissertation Proposal Seminar
o FND 510: Social Justice Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of American Education
o FND 511: Social and Cultural Politics of Education: Personal and Contextual Perspectives
o PPA 505: Urban Community Development
o PPA 510: Social Inequality and Social Policy
o PPA 532: Gender in the Public Sector
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations and Inquiry, National-Louis University, 2009-2015
• Designed and revised graduate courses.
• Member of the coordinating team for the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL)-Masters of Arts in Teaching and the Urban Masters of Education residency programs, focused on course alignment across disciplines and program assessments
• Developed and taught on-line and blended courses
• Advised Curriculum Advocacy and Policy doctoral students
• Chaired and served on dissertation committees
• Served on admissions committees for the Teaching and Learning doctoral program
• Supported community-outreach initiatives
• Coordinated development of departmental website
• Served as a guest lecturer for courses in Educational Leadership, Curriculum Studies, and Urban Education courses
• Courses taught:
o CCD 605: Scholarly Habits of Mind
o CCD 610B: Doctoral Core II (Sociology of Education)
o CCD 690: Race, Ethnicity, and Education
o CCD 630: Education in a Global World
o CSI 601: Cultures of Schools and Communities
o CSI 693: Curriculum Seminar
o ELE/SEC 527: Policy and Politics of Urban Education
o ESR 514: Researchers in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers
o ESR 604: Dissertation Proposal Seminar
o FND 510: Social Justice Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of American Education
o FND 511: Social and Cultural Politics of Education: Personal and Contextual Perspectives
Fulbright scholar and lecturer, Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, 2015-2016
• Reviewed graduate theses
• Assisted in the planning and coordination of National History Day
• Course taught:
o HSTY 232: World History II: From 1914 to 1992
o HSTY 244w: History of Women’s Movements
• Courses designed
o African Diasporan History
o Great Pan-African Thinkers
Select Publications
Rashid, Kamau. Jacob H. Carruthers and the restoration of an African worldview: Finding our way through the desert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).
Rashid, Kamau. “Home education and Re-Africanization: Reflections on theory and practice.” Negro Educational Review (forthcoming).
Rashid, Kamau. “Education means revolt”: Du Bois and the radical imaginary.” Seeds of W.E.B. Du Bois: Musings, Lineal Impressions & Critical Introspections (tentative title), edited by Richard Benson and Whitney Battle-Baptiste. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press (forthcoming).
Rashid, Kamau. “Beyond the Fetters of Colonialism: Du Bois, Nkrumah, and a Pan-African critical theory.” Equity & Excellence in Education 52, no. 2-3 (2019): 271-282.
Rashid, Kamau. “Time to start the revolution”: Hip Hop and Social Justice Education.” Journal of Pan African Studies 9, no. 4 (2016): 341-363.
Rashid, Kamau. “Jacob H. Carruthers and the African-Centered Discourse on Knowledge, Worldview, and Power.” Journal of Pan African Studies 5, no. 4 (2012): 24-45.
Rashid, Kamau. “To Break Asunder Along the Lesions of Race: The Critical Race Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois.” Race, Ethnicity and Education 14, no. 5 (2011): 585-602.
Works in Progress
Rashid, Kamau. The critical theory of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Struggle for Humanity. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Select Conference Presentations
Rashid, Kamau. “Culture, Schooling, and Futurity: Du Bois as a Curricular Theorist.” Paper read at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies conference, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2023.
Rashid, Kamau. “W.E.B. Du Bois Capitalism, Cooperative Economics, and the Black Community.” Paper read at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 3, 2022.
Rashid, Kamau. “Du Bois as a Social Theorist: The intersections of ideation and liberatory struggle.” Paper read at the 150th Year Memorial Symposium on Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois by the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies and the African American Association of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, February 22, 2018.
Rashid, Kamau. “Restoring Continuity, Overcoming Discontinuity: Du Bois and African-Centered Education”. Paper read at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Chicago, Illinois, April 15, 2015.
Rashid, Kamau. “Education means revolt”: Towards a Du Bosian pedagogy of resistance in the face of neoliberal educational reform.” Paper read at the American Educational Studies Association conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1, 2013.
Scholarships, Awards, and Fellowships
Faculty Award of Excellence, Black Heritage Award, Northeastern Illinois University, 2024
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant, 2015-2016
Seed Grant, National Louis University, 2016-2017
Federal Funds for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), 2013-2014
Research Interests
The sociology and sociolinguistics of African languages in the Americas
The philosophical dimensions of African proverbs
African combat arts in the Americas
Intersections of African and Asian cultures
Language, ontology, and cosmology in classical and traditional African societies
Pan-African critical theory
Pan-African thought and social movements
The educational philosophies of W.E.B. Du Bois
The social-historical perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois
African-Centered education