Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer in the School of Education and Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan
About
David is a jazz and justice-loving scholar-practitioner who is guided by a radical love ethic. He currently serves as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the School of Education (SOE) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In his current role, David is responsible for managing the diversity, inclusion, justice, and equity (dije) strategy for the SOE.
Current Work:
David's research interests sit at the nexus of curriculum theory and Black liberatory thought. His dissertation work entitled, "In the Wake of Our Womanist Foremothers: Resistance as Signif(y)er Among Self-Identified Womanist Scholars in Higher Education," investigated the ways self-identified Womanist scholars who are faculty members in four-year postsecondary institutions signify resistance in their curriculum and pedagogy. His current work explores the theoretical and practical implications of teaching as Black bodied testimony for curriculum theorizing and teaching.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Critical, ideological womanist, spiritual, self-reflexive, curriculum theory
