Awad Ibrahim
Assistant Professor
Educational Foundations and Inquiry
559 Education
Office: 419-372-9549
Email: ibrahim@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Advanced Degree

Ph.D., Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, 1998.

Recent Publications

• Ibrahim, A. (2004). Operating Under Erasure: Hip Hop and the Pedagogy of Affective. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 203-223
• A. Ibrahim. (2004). One is not Born Black: Becoming and the Phenomenon(ology) of Race. Philosophical Studies in Education. Volume 35, pp. 89-97.
• Ibrahim, A. (2004). Performing Desire: Race, Identity, Identification, and the Politics of Becoming Black. In Camille and Charmaine Nelson (Eds.) Racism Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology on Race in the Canadian Context (pp. 274-293). Toronto: Captus University Press.
• Ibrahim, A. (2003). Marking the Unmarked: Hip-Hop, the Gaze and the African Body in North America. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 15-24.
• Ibrahim, A. (2003). “Whassup, homeboy?” Joining the African Diaspora: Black English as a Symbolic Site of Identification and Language Learning. In Makoni, S., Smitherman, G., Ball, A. and Spears, A. (Eds.) Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas (pp. 169-185). London: Routledge.
• Ibrahim, A. (2003). The Spectre of ‘And’: Multiculturalism, Antiracism and the Third Continent. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Discipline. Vol. XXI, No. 3, pp. 5-16.
• Ibrahim, A. (2003). May 16, 1999: The Story of the “Dark Man.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Discipline. Vol. XXI, No. 3, pp. 23-26.
• Ibrahim, A. (2000). Trans-re-framing Identity: Race, Language, Culture, and the Politics of Translation. Trans/forms: Insurgent Voices in Education Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 120- 135.
• Ibrahim, A. (2000).  “Hey, ain’t I Black too?” The Politics of Becoming Black. In R. Walcott (Ed.), Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism. Toronto: Insomniac Press, pp. 109-136.
• Ibrahim, A. (1999). Becoming Black: Rap and Hip Hop, Race, Gender, Identity, and the Politics of ESL Learning. TESOL Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 349-369.

Courses Taught

• EDFI 408:  Education in a Pluralistic Society
• EDFI 600:  Philosophy of Education
• EDFI 703:  Sociocultural Bases in Education

Grants

• $45,000, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture.  Québec Government, Québec City.  Through Bishop’s University, Fall 2002-Winter 2005.
• $25,000, CIVITAS Africa: A new praxis of African education, an exchange program between Kenya, Sudan and the United States.

Current Research/Writing Activity

Working on a manuscript exploring the connection between race, language, culture and the politics of identity in ethnography, film and popular culture, especially Hip-Hop; and seeking ways to define Hip-Hop as a form of testimonial speech act.