Dear COEHD Faculty and Staff,
BLACK ACTIVISM is part of the Beyond February Lecture Series sponsored by UTSA African
American Studies and Consortium for Social Transformation in the College of Education and
Human Development, presented by Dr. M. Francyne Huckaby. The event is today at 6 pm in the
University Center Denman Room (2.01.28).
M. Francyne Huckaby is Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Public Education,
and Core Faculty of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She is
currently working with faculty and students to establish African American and Africana
Studies as well as Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at TCU. Her scholarship and
teaching merge the theoretical, philosophical, and historical with attention to tacit
knowledges formed by culture, context, and current moments to create openings for
anti-oppressive discourses and practices. Her current research on community organizing and
resistance to neoliberal education reform puts filmmaking to work in research analysis and
presentation (see
vimeo.com/FilmsPeople<http://vimeo.com/FilmsPeople>). Her work
appears in International Review of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry,
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Educational Philosophy and
Theory, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Handbook of Public Pedagogy, Women and
Pedagogy: Education through Autobiographical Narrative, and Duoethnography: Dialogic
Methods for Social, Health, and Educational Research. Her honors include the TCU
Deans' Teaching Award for the College of Education, TCU Mortar Board Preferred
Professor, and Straight for Equality from Fort Worth's PFLAG chapter. She received the
Outstanding Dissertation of the Year (AERA, Qualitative Research SIG) for Challenging the
Hegemony in Education: Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Care of the Self, and Relations of
Power. She loves to travel and returned to Papua New Guinea in 2011 where she lived and
worked with six South Foré villages as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 1990s.
Please see the attached flyer for additional event information.
Thank you,
The African American Studies Program and the Consortium for Social Transformation