Ronald K. Porter
University of California, Berkeley
Ronald K. Porter is a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Studies with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. His research interests include African-American educational thought and critical theories of race, gender and sexuality. His dissertation research traces the intellectual history of African-American educational thought looking specifically at the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, and James Baldwin. Porter received a master's in education from Berkeley, and a bachelor's in political science from Eckerd College in Florida.
His publications include Pedagogy of fear: toward a Fanonian theory of 'safety' in race dialogue, co-authored with Zeus Leonardo, and A rainbow in black: The gay politics of the Black Panther Party (Forthcoming in Sexualities in Education: A Reader).
DISSERTATION TITLE
Contested Humanity: Blackness and the Educative Remaking of the Human in the 20th Century
