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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

~Paulo Freire
 

  


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M. Francyne Huckaby, Ph.D. has been an assistant professor in the college of education at Texas Christian University since 2004. Her academic work merges formal knowledge (theoretical, philosophical, and historical) that shapes assumptions about education, and an attentiveness to tacit knowledge formed by culture, context, and current realities. Dr. Huckaby encourages teachers, scholars, and institutions to critically explore the processes, products, and effects of knowledge on educational practices, students, educators, and communities. Her scholarly and pedagogical work is primarily concerned with creating openings and spaces for anti-oppressive discourses and practices.

Dr. Huckaby’s dissertation, Challenging Hegemony in Education: Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Care of the Self, and Relations of Power, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award at the 2007 American Educational Research Association conference from the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group. The award committee commented on her work,

The dissertation is very novel, completely original, and demonstrates very mature scholarship…. Her clarity of explaining her ways of analyzing technologies of the self within relations of power is an enormous contribution. This is then a model for power analysis.

Her dissertation was supported with grants from Texas A&M University’s Race and Ethnic Studies Institute and Gender Issues Institute. Dr. Huckaby has presented her scholarship at international conferences in the United States of America, Canada, England, Macedonia, Mexico, The Netherlands, and Portugal.

Before beginning her doctoral work, Fran was a Peace Corps volunteer in Papua New Guinea and facilitated the development of the first primary schools and school boards in six Highland villages. Through this experience, she clarified her interest in decolonization and anti-oppressive educational practices. She completed her master of education at Texas Christian University and her bachelor of arts at Austin College. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and dog, and on occasion finds time to build things and tend her garden.