Lasana Kazembe
School of Education/Department of Urban Teacher Education
Expert Bio
Lasana D. Kazembe is an assistant professor in the IU School of Education’s Department of Urban Teacher Education and in the Africana Studies Program at IU Indianapolis. He is a published poet, spoken-word artist, educational consultant, and scholar of urban teacher education, global Black arts movements, and the Black radical tradition in education.
His research interests intersect culturally sustaining pedagogy, the arts and arts pedagogy, and social and racial justice in education. Through teaching, research and community service, his work challenges and disrupts inequity and centers the transformative role of culture in urban education and the arts.
Areas of Expertise
Urban education, arts-based pedagogy, curriculum studies, race, culturally responsive teaching, global Black arts movements, arts and humanities.
Other Information
- The Conversation, “I prepare aspiring teachers to educate kids of color”
- IU Newsroom, “16 New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities grants awarded as program transitions in 2020”
- Nuvo, “Five (not so) easy pieces : book recommendations by Lasana Kazembe on systemic racism”
- Nuvo, “Lasana Kazembe on Developing a Black Arts Movement Curriculum for the Classroom”
- 2019 Mosaic Faculty Fellows
