Dr Leigh Patel, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, will read from her book No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education. Booklist describes No Study Without Struggle as a “Thought-provoking interrogation for academics and reformers,” while Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, says, “Patel delivers a powerful, penetrating analysis of the settler-colonial roots of the modern university and the consequences for higher education and our society at large.”

A professor of education at the University of Pittsburg School of Education, Patel works extensively with societally marginalized youth and teacher activists. She is a recipient of the June Jordan Award for scholarly leadership and poetic bravery in social critique and is a national board member of Education for Liberation, a long-standing organization dedicated to transformative education for and by youth of color. She is also the author of Youth Held at the Border and Decolonizing Educational Research.

Dr. Patel is here as the Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, and is a guest of the University of Iowa College of Education.