Awad Ibrahim

Awad Ibrahim is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa. He used to teach for more than five years in Education and American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is a doctoral graduate of the University of Toronto and teaches and publishes in the areas of Hip-Hop studies; Black pop culture; minority adolescents; racially and linguistically mediated identities; antiracism and critical multiculturalism; applied socio-linguistics; cultural studies. His previous research looked at a group of displaced continental African youth and their identity formation in Southwestern Ontario.

He has published widely and explored the connections between race, language, globalization, culture and the politics of identity; the impact of Black popular culture on young people; and the dialogic relation between continental and diasporic African identities. He has published in TESOL Quarterly, TESL Canada, Taboo, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Educational Theory, Inquiry, Critical Arts, among others, and in many edited volumes. He was recently awarded (with Dr. Alden Craddock) over one million dollars by Higher Education for Development (USAID/MEPI) to conduct research in civic education in Morocco, which is a continuation to his previous work in Kenya and South Africa dealing with civic education and linking schooling with indigenous knowledge. Originally from the Sudan, he is fluent in seven languages, including Arabic, English, French and Italian.

Research Interests: Curriculum Studies/Curriculum Theory; Cultural Studies/Hip-Hop/Black Popular Culture; Critical Theory/Critical Pedagogy/Anti-racism; Applied Linguistics/Critical Literacy/; Critical Race Theory; Philosophy; Sociology; Ethnography; Indigenous Knowledge and Civic/Citizenship Education.