Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Roozbeh Shirazi, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota. His teaching and research in Jordan, the United States, and recently, in France, focuses on secondary and postsecondary education as everyday arenas of cultural and political struggle and possibility to challenge racism, coloniality, and imperialism. His recent research projects examine civic practices of youth from Muslim immigrant communities in the United States and have utilized digital storytelling to create counternarrative spaces for refugee, migrant, and newcomer youth in France. These projects are unified by his commitment to interrupt – and imagine alternatives to – hegemonic and dehumanizing depictions of minoritized immigrant communities that animate contemporary migration and educational policies, curricular resources, and pedagogical practices. He is interested in how formal and community-organized educational settings and practices may be productive of new diasporic imaginaries and transnational solidarities with other minoritized communities in the United States and Europe.
Exploring the Intersections of U.S. Imperialism and Teacher Education
Saturday, February 17, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM MST