Jillian Ford

(she/they) is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Secondary and Middle Grades Education at Kennesaw State University.* Their community engagements, pedagogies, and research projects center questions related to embodied pedagogies, teacher and youth resistance, & human/more-than-human connections to the biosphere and beyond. She draws on Black feminist, womanist, decolonial, and abolitionist frameworks. Ford co-edited Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions (University of Illinois Press) with Nathalia Jaramillo. Other published work has appeared in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Multicultural Education, and several edited volumes. 

* All content on this site represents my views, not those of my employer.

  • This blog is a record of my wonderings, observations, thoughts, and insights as I engage in conversation with the biosphere.

  • EDSM 8901: Issues and Trends in Secondary and Middle Grades Education

    EDSM 8701: Contemporary Issues in Educational Equity

  • Publications

    Stream I: Teacher and Youth Resistance

    Stream II: Human/More-Than-Human Connections to the Biosphere and Beyond

    Stream III: Black Studies in Education

    Stream IV: K-12 Ethnic Studies

  • #BlackTeachersMatter

    Cosmic Curriculum

    Book Club

    Stronger Together