Dr. Leigh Patel is a transdisciplinary scholar who studies the narratives that create material realities in society. Her research focuses on both the ways schooling delivers inequities and how education can be a tool for liberation. She is a highly sought-after speaker and well-regarded scholar across the fields of education, ethnic studies, critical higher education studies, and literacy.
Instructional Interests
- Decolonization and Education
- Education and Society
- Social Movement and Education
- Critical Policy Analysis
- Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
- Literacy Foundations
Scholarly Interests
- The relationship between struggle and study
- How narrative create and justify material inequities
- Language and literacy as ways of re-shaping curricula
- Decolonizing research
- Historical analysis of education