International and Multicultural Education Department, USF

04/24/2025

✨ Congrats to the soon-to-be DOCTOR Jennifer Thomas on the successful defense of her dissertation, The Ecopedagogical Effectiveness of the US-ED Green Ribbon School Framework in K–12 Schools 🎉🎓🎊

04/17/2025

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04/16/2025

Dede Adote first year doctoral student (IME) presenting her theoretical framework, BAISCrit, at the UC Berkeley SE Conference. Developed last year, BAISCrit captures the lived experiences of Black African international students within a racialized context. This work is driven by the urgent need to address the financial, institutional, and legal barriers these students face, while also exploring how racial capitalism and neoliberalism intersect to reinforce these challenges.

Using quantitative data, her goal is to advocate for policy and social change, calling on university administrators, international offices, and department leaders to create an environment of true belonging. These students aren’t just navigating racial and migration struggles—they’re also confronting their identities in spaces that often reduce them to one narrow, stereotyped narrative about “the Africa of Africa.”

BAISCrit seeks to challenge these systemic issues, deeply rooted in structures that prioritize profit over the well-being and integration of marginalized students.

04/04/2025

Congratulations to IME Faculty, Melissa Ann Canlas on her promotion to Associate Professor!

We are so very grateful to learn with and from her every day and could not be more proud. Melissa is an inspiring teacher, scholar, and an incredible human!

03/27/2025

03/26/2025

Registration is Now Open for the Black Migration Conference!
The Migration Studies Department and the School of Law, in collaboration with Dede Adote (SOE), are excited to invite you to the 2025 Black Migration Conference, happening on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

In times of uncertainty, we will come together to define this moment: Thriving and Not Just Surviving. This event will focus on recognizing challenges, advocating for change, and envisioning new futures rooted in collective action, engagement, and liberation.

RSVP at bit.ly/2025-black-migration-conference-reg

If you have any questions please reach out to Dede [email protected]

03/25/2025

Professors & students from attending the Comparative & International Education Society Annual Conference presenting on their research & serving in elected roles for the society

03/23/2025

03/17/2025

CONGRATS to the soon-to-be-DOCTOR BRIAN DAVIS for the successful defense of his dissertation!!! We are so proud of you Brian from when you started in the HRE-MA Program in Fall 2019 to the end of your doctoral degree this semester! 👏🏽🎉🧑🏾‍🎓

03/15/2025

We love seeing our alums shine in the work they do in the world 🌎! Today we had the opportunity to visit with alums and prospective students at Cañada College on the Peninsula where we have so many alums working in a variety of teaching, counseling, staff and administrator roles. Thanks for coming out, sharing space, & celebrating Pi day with 🍕 & 🥧 !!!

03/13/2025

Congrats to IME Alum, Dr John Calloway!

Dr. John Calloway “John was and still is a mentor to my son and has influenced countless young musicians.” Dr. John Calloway is a nationally recognized multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who simultaneously had a dual career in education for 40 years. John began teaching in the Bay Area...

03/10/2025

IME Teaching Weekend classes took to the community this weekend with many classes having field trips/learning opportunities off campus. The Latinx Education & Social Movements courses visited an exhibit “From the River to the Bay” and the Immigration class had the opportunity to take part in the walking tour. An amazing weekend of experiential learning!

Special gratitude to the USF PACSW grant for helping support the walking tour (especially meaningful to do close to international women’s day)!

03/05/2025

Congratulations to Dede Adote, first-year IME doctoral student whose paper “Beyond Repression: Cooptation as a Strategic Tool to Diffuse Social Movements in Non-Democratic Regimes—Congo, Sudan, and Haiti” has been accepted for the upcoming IPRA conference in New Zealand!

Dede is currently seeking a co-author ( preferably a doctoral student) to assist with this paper’s final literature on Palestine, a topic of significant importance in our field. The research will employ a mixed-methods theoretical analysis, with the findings to be presented at the AERA conference next April. The ideal co-author should be proficient in STATA/ SPSS and statistical coding.

If you are interested in collaborating, please contact Dede directly at [[email protected]]. This is a great opportunity to contribute to an exciting project with a clear timeline for presentation and publication.

02/28/2025

Lovely reunion tonight! Enjoyed getting to see all the IME alums who came out to represent!!!

02/15/2025

If you missed tonight’s town hall with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLiNN_NMO4

From Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the Trump family’s vision for remaking Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace. Tune in for a discussion of what we must do to resist the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts.