Brad Bierdz

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<p>Fields: Crip Studies (Disability Studies), Queer Studies, Decolonial Studies, Black Studies, Unique forms of Curricular Inquiry, Curriculum Studies, Identity, Onto-Epistemology, Anarchic Studies, Poststructuralism, Deconstructionism, Psychoanalysis, Posthumanism, Cultural Studies, Futurity, (Time, Space, and Causation), Spirituality, Non-Western Knowledge Systems, Continental Philosophy</p><p/><p>Theoreticians:</p><p>Educational Studies: Freire, bell hooks, Michael Apple, Jean Anyon, Ladson-Billings, Kumashiro, Bettina Love, Wayne Au, John Dewey, Maxine Greene, Nel Noddings, William Pinar, Lisa Delpit, Eve Tuck, Susan Grande, Zeus Leonardo, Django Paris, Gert Biesta, David Stovall, etc.</p><p/><p>Continental: Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Lefebvre, Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel, Kant, Descartes</p><p/><p>American: Whitehead, William James, Richard Rorty, Cornel West, Charles Mills, Jane Addams, Alain Locke, Paul Goodman, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Counts, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag</p><p/><p>Marxist and Neo-Marxist: Mark Fisher, Gramsci, Michael Apple, Marcuse, Althusser, Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Hardt &amp; Negri</p><p/><p>Poststructuralism: Deleuze &amp; Guattari, Foucualt, Baudrillard, Derrida, Butler, Lyotard, Spivak, Barad</p><p/><p>Crip Studies (Disability Studies): Mel Chen, Remi Yergeau, Robert McRuer, Alison Kafer, Lennard Davis, Eli Clare, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Sami Schalk, Nirmala Erevelles, David Mitchell, Ryan Thorneycroft, Sharon Snyder</p><p/><p>Queer Studies: Haraway, Butler, Sedgwick, José Muñoz, Halberstam, Dean Spade, Sami Schalk, Sara Ahmed, Jasbir Puar</p><p/><p>Anarchy Studies: Saul Newman, Paul Virilio, Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Malatesta, Proudhon, Kropotkin, de Cleyre, Chomsky, Todd May, Hakim Bey, Gustavo Esteva, Ivan Illich, Ruth Kinna, Colin Ward</p><p/><p>Posthumanism: Braidotti, Barad, Haraway, Mel Chen, Isabelle Stengers</p><p/><p>Black Studies: Angela Davis, bell hooks, Audre Lorder, Patricia Hill Collins, Fred Moten, Cedric Robinson, Du Bois, Fanon, Baldwin, Ella Baker, Paul Gilroy, Saidiya Hartman, Zakiyyah Jackson, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright</p><p/><p>Decolonial: Thiong'o, Mbembe, Mignolo, Quijano, Anzaldúa, de Sousa Santos, Spivak, Eve Tuck, Grande</p><p/><p>Topics: topics can be ranging within curriculum broadly writ</p><p/><p/>

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Prof. Bierdz joined Georgia Southern University in 2025.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Curriculum Studies, Ph.D., Sense and Nonsense: Cripping Onto-Epistemic Functions of Time, Space, and Causation, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Aug 1 2018May 20 2024

Award Date: May 20 2024

Disciplines

  • Curriculum and Social Inquiry
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Epistemology
  • Social Justice
  • Disability Studies
  • Disability and Equity in Education
  • Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
  • Women's Studies
  • Africana Studies
  • Humane Education

Research Interests

  • Crip Studies
  • Queer Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Black Studies
  • Curricular Inquiry
  • Curriculum Studies
  • Identity
  • Onto-Epistemology
  • Anarchic Studies
  • Poststructuralism
  • Deconstructionism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Cultural Studies
  • Futurity
  • Time, Space, and Causation
  • Posthumanism
  • Spirituality
  • Non-Western Knowledge Systems

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