Kevin Lam, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban and Diversity Education,
Director of Social Justice in Urban Education Concentration
Contact Information
Email: kevin.lam@drake.edu
Phone: 515.271.2324
Address: 2702 Forest Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50311
Office: Collier-Scripps Hall 123
Education
B.A., University of California-Los Angeles
M.A., California State University-Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Honors & Professional Memberships
Honors
Professional Memberships
- American Educational Studies Association
- American Educational Research Association
Selected Publications
- Co-editor, The Selected Works of Antonia Darder: On Theory, Politics, and Struggle (Bloomsbury, 2025)
- Co-editor, The Critical Pedagogy Reader (4th edition) (Routledge, 2023)
- Author, Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context (Palgrave, 2015)
- “Beyond ‘Bread and Circus’: Reading and Teaching Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” in The Student Guide to Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2nd edition) (Bloomsbury, 2024)
- “The Exigency of Radical Class Politics: A Personal Journey,” in On Class, Race and Educational Reform (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Areas of Expertise
- Vietnamese/Asian American Youth
- Youth Violence
- Critical Theories of Racism
- Critical Pedagogy
- Urban Education
- Cultural Studies
- Political Economy
Courses Taught
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Seminar on Communication, Representation, and Cultural History
- Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education
- Leadership, Multiculturalism and Social Justice
- Urban Arts Integration
- Critical Theory and Pedagogy (independent study)
- Critical Theories of Racism (independent study)
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Applications for Teaching in Urban Schools (honors)
- Cultural Proficiency II
- Cultural Proficiency I
- Urban Education and Immigration (honors)
- Social Context of Urban Schools (honors)
- Youth, Culture, and Society (honors)
- Foundations of Education
- Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
