Kamau Rashid, Ph.D.
Health Sciences and Physical Education
Professor; Founding Director of the Leadership, Equity and Inquiry Ed.D. program
Office:
LWH 4010A
Phone:
(773) 442-5378
Email:
ka-rashid@neiu.edu
Country:
United States
EDFN-455B: Seminar II
ICSE-428: The Urban World
Research Interests
Pan-African critical theory
Martial arts in the African Diaspora
African-centered education
African combat arts in the Americas
Language revitalization in the African Diaspora
Transnational anti-colonial movements
Education
Educational Policy Studies, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Inner City Studies, M.A.
Northeastern Illinois University
Sociology, B.A.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Selected Publications
Rashid, Kamau. Jacob H. Carruthers and the Restoration of an African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2024).
Rashid, Kamau. “‘You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community’: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit.” Journal of Black Studies 53, no. 7 (2022).
Background
Dr. Kamau Rashid earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MA in Inner City Studies from Northeastern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He served on the faculty of National Louis University from 2009-2021 and taught classes in the social foundations of education and public policy, in addition to advising doctoral students. In 2015 and 2016, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana.
Lastly, he is active in a number of initiatives related to food sovereignty and community/youth development.