C.V. & Things

Published Writing (select pieces)

  • Learning from below: A micro-ethnographic account of children's self-determination as sociopolitical and intellectual action

    Davis, N., Vossoughi, S., & Smith, J. F. (2020).

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  • Troubling Troubled Waters in Elementary Science Education: Politics, Ethics & Black Children’s Conceptions of Water [Justice] in the Era of Flint

    Davis & Schaeffer (2019)

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  • We who believe in freedom: Freedom Schools as a critical context for the positive, sociopolitical development of Black youth

    Davis et al (2021)

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  • Tinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult Versus Child-centered Education

    Vossoughi, Escude & Davis (2021)

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Featured Panels, Speaking & Teaching Engagements

GSU/Sources Conference 2021

ARTivism: The power of creatives to design transformative spaces for humanizing education.

  • Panelists: Natalie R. Davis and German Dubois, HOPE Murals

  • Facilitated by Brian Williams, Director of the Alzono A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence

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ISLS Invited Panel 2021

Expanding Conceptions of Learning: Colonialism, Social Movements & Possible Futures

  • Panelists: Thomas Philip, Lucy Avraamidou, University of Groningen, Arshad Ali, Natalie R. Davis, Ananda Marin, Isabel Martins, Audrey Msimanga, Miwa Aoki Takeuchi, Shirin Vossoughi

    We are grateful to our dear friend and colleague Dr. Audrey Msimanga for her role in shaping the evolution of our collective work. Audrey’s ideas on agency, freedom and science education in the Global South deepened our understandings of learning and histories in places. May her ideas and commitments to just education live on. We are honored to have had the opportunity to co-think with her

Press Spotlights

  • Detroit Historical Museum Exhibition Feature

    U-M Bicentennial (2017), “The Next 100 Years”

  • Research Spotlight: Children’s Self-Determination

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  • NU Spotlight: Hope in Those Places of Struggle

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  • Early Career Award: CEHD Announcement

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