Assistant Professor of Instruction Department of Criminology/Criminal Justice and the Center for African American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington
About
Dr Frederick V. Engram Jr. is an assistant professor of instruction at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Department of Criminology/Criminal Justice and the Center for African American Studies. His current research and teaching focuses on the role that race, and racism play in the systems of higher education and criminal justice. He focuses more broadly on the way that racism, white supremacy, white manning, and white privilege display themselves in power structures and how they oppress African Americans. His work considers how African Americans make sense of their experiences with racism in education and society at large. He has previously published his work in media outlets such as Blavity and Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Current Work:
Dr. Engram's scholarship focuses on listening to the voices of African American graduate students at the master's level. This particular demographic of students are largely forgotten about in most higher education research regarding racist experiences. He uses his scholarship to shine a light on this demographic because not only are they largely forgotten in the literature they're also forgotten about on campus. This is reflected in various ways such as: recruiting and GFA offers, university town hall discussions, programming, opportunities for mentoring, ignoring the preferred value of sameness, and internships/fellowships. Dr. Engram's upcoming projects focus on disrupting the hold that whiteness attempts to have on our voices and lived experiences in higher education. It is my intent to continue to create literature that unapologetically disrupts the status quo and breaks free from the control of white centered voices.
Research Area Keyword(s):
white manning; pwis; hbcu's; racism
