Meet Desmond

Ikenna Desmond Odugu is an Associate Professor of Education and the chair of Education at Lake Forest College. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from Loyola University Chicago. In addition to his research on linguistic processes, education, and social change in the Global South, as well as race, space, and education in the United States, he explores the history and historiography of education in the African context. His interest spans epistemic reconsiderations of colonial education historiography, oral history, and indigenous African educational processes prior to and since colonial encounters. He is also the director of the Humanities 2020, a partnership initiative funded by The Mellon Foundation, which supports collaborative projects between Lake Forest College and numerous Chicago area institutions to engage with issues of racism in the Built Environment, in History and Storytelling, and in Incarceration and Displacement.

Personal website: odugudes.com