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Dr. R. Nanre Nafziger

Title: 
Assistant Professor, Black/African Studies in Education
Dr. R. Nanre Nafziger
Contact Information
Email address: 
nanre.nafziger [at] mcgill.ca
Alternate phone: 
514-396-2152
Address: 

3700 MacTavish Street

Montreal, Quebec

Division: 
Educational Leadership Supervisors
Educational Studies (Ph.D.) Supervisors
Education and Society Supervisors
Department: 
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Area(s): 
Social Action and Sustainability Education
Areas of expertise: 

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聽

Biography: 

Nanre Nafziger is an educator-organizer-scholar who serves her various communities through writing, research, teaching, and pan-Africanist organizing. Nanre鈥檚 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.

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Degree(s): 
  • 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
Selected publications: 
  • Nafziger, R. N. (2024). The Journey Within: Inner Resonances of Doctoral Soundings. In聽First-Gen Docs聽(pp. 115-129). Brill.
  • Nafziger, R. N., Strong, K., & Tarlau, R. (2023). 鈥榃e bring in each other's wisdom鈥�: liberatory praxis and political education for Black lives in Philadelphia.聽Globalisation, Societies and Education,听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.聽Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies,听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聽Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change聽(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,
Program: 

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

Graduate supervision: 

I am currently accepting students who work in areas of mutual interest.聽

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