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Edward Brockenbrough

Edward Brockenbrough

Assistant Professor and Director, Urban Teaching & Leadership Program
Teaching & Curriculum

LeChase Hall 450
Office Phone: (585) 275-5053
Fax: 486-1159
ebrock@warner.rochester.edu

Education:

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Foundations and Practices of Education)
MS Ed, University of Pennsylvania (Foundations and Practices of Education)
BA, Brown University (American Civilizations)
Edward Brockenbrough directs the Urban Teaching and Leadership Program, a Warner School initiative in partnership with the Rochester City School District that prepares urban teachers with a commitment to social justice. He also teaches courses on concepts and issues in social science research, pre-service teacher preparation, and diversity and social justice in American education.

Brockenbrough’s research focuses on negotiations of identity, pedagogy, and power in urban educational spaces, with particular attention to black, masculinity, and queer issues in education. He is currently conducting a critical ethnography on the identities and educational experiences of LGBT youth of color, with an emphasis on youth agency in the midst of multiple systems of oppression. Prior research projects have included an examination of the challenges and opportunities encountered by black male teachers in secondary, predominantly minority, urban schools and a comparison of the role modeling experiences of black, Latino, and white male teachers.

Prior to joining the Warner School in 2009, Brockenbrough taught graduate courses to pre-service teachers and Teach for America cohort members through the teacher preparation program at the University of Pennsylvania, and he evaluated a range of school reform initiatives as a staff member at Research for Action, a nonprofit educational research organization in Philadelphia. He is a current board member of the Black Gay Research Group, a collective of scholars, service providers, and activists committed to disseminating work produced by and about black gay men. He also serves as the president of the board of directors of the MOCHA Center, a nonprofit agency that addresses health disparities affecting communities of color, with an emphasis on LGBT programming.

Publications Available on the Web

"Agency and Abjection in the Closet: The Voices (and Silences) of Black Queer Male Teachers," International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

"Emasculation Blues: Black Male Teachers’ Perspectives on Gender and Power in the Teaching Profession," Teachers College Record

"‘You Ain’t My Daddy!’: Black Male Teachers and the Politics of Surrogate Fatherhood," International Journal of Inclusive Education

Symposium

10/19/2012 Experts Address HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans

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Courses

ED400A Topics in Teaching and Schooling, Part 2
ED400 Topics in Teaching and Schooling, Part 1
ED440 Urban Teaching & Leadership Seminar 1A
ED441 Urban Teaching and Leadership Seminar 1B
EDU442 Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in American Education
EDE446 Introduction to Urban Education
ED468 Leadership in Urban Schools
ED506 Concepts and Issues in Social Science Research
EDU528 Advanced Doctoral Seminar in Curriculum and Pedagogy



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