Guest Talk: Playing in the Dark? Blackness, Humanity, and Studies of Black Life in Education, with Chezare A. Warren
Please join us for the second talk in the Spring 2025 speaker series organized by the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study.
Chezare A. Warren, PhD is Associate Professor of Education Policy and Principal Investigator of THE POSSIBILITIES PROJECT at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. He holds a secondary appointment in Peabody’s Department of Teaching & Learning and is affiliated faculty in African American and Diaspora Studies in the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Warren is a scholar of race and intersectional justice whose research interests center on understanding the conditions that enable Black students’ education success and wellbeing. A former secondary math teacher and school administrator from Chicago, Dr. Warren has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania. He is recipient of numerous national recognitions including two early career awards from the American Educational Research Association, and the Charles DeGarmo Award, presented by the Society of
Professors of Education and given to a scholar who is a “prominent and distinguished figure in American Education.” He is also a 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and 2024 TED-Ed Fellow. His TED talk on empathy in education—an area for which Dr. Warren has published extensively—has more than 400,000 views since publication. Warren is author of Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago’s South Side to Success in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2017) and About Centering Possibility in Black Education (Teachers College Press, 2021). His research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals including Educational Researcher, Journal of Teacher Education, and Urban Education. He is a widely sought after speaker and consultant on issues of race and equity in education. For more information, visit www.chezarewarren.com
This guest talk is co-sponsored by the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study and the Gottesman Libraries.
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Where: 306 Russell / Online
