Bio

Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton is a Black motherscholar who prioritizes scholarship in service of her community. She works in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, and prior to higher education, she was a K-12 educator for 16 years. Her broad research and teaching focus on Black Critical Race Theory, Black Educational Studies, Black Feminist Thought, intersectionality, critical pedagogy, and the sociology of race and education. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit organization Making Us Matter and co-founding editor of The Black Educology Mixtape “Journal”. Her scholarship investigates the complex intersections of race, identity, gender, and education, and is published in peer-reviewed journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Equity & Excellence in Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, and Educational Studies. Her first book, Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences, is published through Routledge. Drawing on 18 years of experience, her writing, teaching, and research intersect to explore interdisciplinary themes deeply informed by and engaging with Black intellectual traditions.

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    eghosa@stanford.edu
    University - Staff Department: Graduate School of Education Position: STEP Secondary English Clinical Associate

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2025-26 Courses

All Publications

  • Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. Routledge. 2026
  • We Will Not Walk Through Rotten Orchards: Abolition and (Re)nourishing the Soil of Black Communities Through Insulated Praxis in Education EQUITY & EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. 2024; 57 (3): 257-271

    View details for DOI 10.1080/10665684.2023.2297211

    View details for Web of Science ID 001145724500001

  • I Am My Hair: A Black Woman Educator’s Autoethnography of Oppression and Liberation Through Schooling, Bantu Knots, Box Braids, Locs, and a Press Harvard Educational Review Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. 2024; 94 (4)

    View details for DOI 10.17763/1943-5045-94.4.515

  • We are transformers: on being black, women, and pedagogues EQUITY & EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. 2023; 56 (4): 622-635

    View details for DOI 10.1080/10665684.2023.2280831

    View details for Web of Science ID 001182835600007

  • We out here: Remixing student engagement in education via black women’s hip-hop narratives featuring rapsody’s album eve Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. 2026

    View details for DOI 10.1080/15505170.2025.2594089

  • Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence Black Motherscholarship Within and Beyond the Academy Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. Springer Nature. 2025: 111-122

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-99758-7_8

  • We See You: A Co-Constructed Autoethnography of Black Women Educators Subverting Carcerality in Community with Black Students EDUCATIONAL STUDIES-AESA Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Jenkins, T. 2024; 60 (4): 407-424

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00131946.2024.2378447

    View details for Web of Science ID 001279451100001

  • Femmenoir pedagogies: rescripting the reproduction of Black women's marginalization in education RACE ETHNICITY AND EDUCATION Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Norris, A., Elsinbawi, M., Paley, M., Cohen, A. 2025; 28 (3): 353-375

    View details for DOI 10.1080/13613324.2024.2327110

    View details for Web of Science ID 001183868700001

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