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Denise Taliaferro Baszile

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Denise Taliaferro Baszile has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of educational leadership. Baszile received her bachelor’s degree in communication studies from UCLA in 1990. After working in broadcast news, where she became intrigued with the challenges of cross-racial communication, Baszile decided to refocus her interests in the field of education. She received her master’s in secondary English education and her doctorate in curriculum theory at Louisiana State University in 1996 and 1998.

Baszile’s research interests are in the historical, political and philosophical foundations of race and its relationship to curriculum and pedagogy. She taught at Colgate University for four years across educational studies, women’s studies, and Africana studies. In 2002, she joined the Miami faculty.

She has taught a variety of courses in curriculum theory, critical race theory, critical media literacy and African American education on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Baszile has published articles and book chapters on the pedagogical challenges of teaching race in predominately white universities, the importance of considering radical leadership for educational change, the significance of the black autobiographical voice in curriculum studies and critical race testimony, and the curriculum of hip hop culture.

Date Published: 02/19/2009
Volume: 27 Number: 22