Education

PhD, Curriculum and Instruction

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Emphasis in curriculum theory, minor in cultural studies

Dissertation title: Strange bedfellows in the Milwaukee ‘parental choice’ debate: Participation among the dispossessed in conservative educational reform

Committee  Michael W. Apple (Chair), James Paul Gee, Gloria Ladson-Billings

M.S., Curriculum and Instruction

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Emphasis in curriculum theory                 

Thesis title: The rise of the managerial state and the decline of rehabilitation in the United States: A conjunctural and discursive analysis of a 1993 “late-rehabilitation” prison education reform proposal in the context of conservative modernization                                                                                       

Committee  Michael W. Apple (Chair), James Paul Gee, Diana Hess

Teaching Certificate

Tulane University

Secondary social studies 

B.A., Philosophy

Miami University

Emphasis in critical social theory