Tricia Niesz, Ph.D.

Tricia Niesz is a Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education in the College of Education, Health and Human Services at Kent State University. She is co-founder and co-coordinator of Kent State’s new interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Qualitative Research. Tricia’s research employs anthropological methods and theories to investigate cultural change in the field of education. She is particularly interested in teachers’ participation in social movements and professional movements promoting equity and social justice, and how these movements generate knowledge, learning, identities, and school change. Over the past few years, she has researched educational change efforts promoted by activist educators in the U.S. and South India. Her recent work has been published in Teachers College Record, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and the Journal of Educational Change.