Education Studies

Associate Professor of Education Studies, Chair of the Education Studies Department and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program

I am associate professor of philosophy and history of education and teach courses on how education has, does, and can help us imagine, struggle for, and enact liberatory ways of being together in the world. My courses depend on and inform my research interests, which are quite varied but generally focus on the relationships between education and political movements. If you like podcasts, I think the brilliant hosts of helped me articulate the larger picture of my work .

I've written a few books, the latest of which is (and you can hear about on ). Until the next round of cutbacks come, I am deputy editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies and associate editor of Postdigital Science and Education. My work appears in a range of scholarly journals and popular outlets. I hosted and co-created the podcast series, , which takes listeners through volume 1 of Marx's magnum opus and is available on all major streaming platforms, and helped write and produce the mini-documentary, "."

What moves my research and teaching also moves my organizing. I am the Coordinator of , Education Department Chair at the , and an organizer with the the and the , among other groups. I also serve as the editor of and chair of the 's education department.

You can see my cv .

CLASSES

EDUC 170: Foundations of education
EDUC 197: We can't breathe: Identity, capitalism, and air conditions
EDUC 197: Urban revolutions: Space, capitalism, and social change
EDUC 197: Art, politics, and education
EDUC 197: The politics of sound: Education and the struggle over listening
EDUC 223: Deconstructing difference
EDUC 275: Radical philosophy and education
EDUC 290: Education, space, and urban revolution
EDUC 290: Art, politics, and education: Unlearning and the aesthetics of struggle
EDUC 325: History of American education
EDUC 360: Political economy of schools
EDUC 390: Pedagogy in the 'post-truth' era
EDUC 390: Philosophy and alternative educational spaces
EDUC 390: Critical disability studies: Disordering education and society
EDUC 480: Educational research
EDUC 490: Senior research seminar
UNIV 183: (North) Korea in Japan: Colonialism and education
UNIV 184: The Baltimore Rebellion: Anatomy of an uprising

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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* denotes DePauw student/alum
Co-authored with students

• Ford, D., & Chaparro, D. (2024). (Un)learning aesthetics: Pedagogy and the perceptual ecology of class struggle. Critical Education, 15(1), 1-14.
• Pappachen, M.S.*, & Ford D. (2023). Historical materialism: A postdigital philosophical method. In P. Jandric, A. MacKenzie, & J. Knox (Eds.), Postdigital research: Genealogies, challenges, and future perspectives. New York: Springer.
• Ford, D., Swenson, K*, & Fosher, M*. (2022). From the knowable and transparent individual to the secret thought of individuation: An anti-capitalist postdigital ecopedagogy. In P. Jandric & D. Ford (Eds.), Postdigital ecopedagogies: Genealogies, contradictions, and possible futures. New York: Springer.
• Ford, D., & Sasaki, M.* (2022). The multitude beyond measure: Building a common stupor. Educational Philosophy and Theory, (54)7, 938-945. (republished in A.J. Means, A. Sojot, Y. Ida, and M. Sustarsic (Eds.). (2023). Empire and Education. New York: Routledge.
• Pappachen, M.*, & Ford, D. (2022). Spreading stupidity: Disability and anti-imperialist resistance to bio-informational capitalism. In M. Peters, P. Jandric, and S. Hayes (Eds.), Bioinformational philosophy and postdigital knowledge ecologies. New York: Springer.
• Ford, D., & Esposito, M.* (2021). Aesthetic encounters beyond the present: Historical materialism and sonic pedagogies for resisting  abstraction. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 19(3), 32-55.
• Ford, D., & Sasaki, M.* (2021). Listening like a postdigital human: The politics and knowledge of noise. In M. Savin-Baden (Ed.), Postdigital humans: Transitions, transformations, and transcendence. New York: Springer.
• Ford, D., Waalkes*, A., Wilcek, S.*, & Cooprider, C.* (2019). An introduction, a wager: Long live radical philosophy and education! In D. Ford (Ed.), Keywords in radical philosophy and education: Common concepts for contemporary movements. Boston: Brill.

Books

• Ford, D. (2023). . Madison: Iskra Books.
• Ford, D. (2022). , 2nd ed. Lanham: Lexington Books. (1st ed. published 2016).
• Ford, D. (2022). . Madison: Iskra Books.
• Ford, D. (2021).. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ford, D. (2021). . Boston: Brill.
• Ford, D. (2019). . London: Bloomsbury.
• Ford, D. (2017). . New York: Routledge

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, 2015
M.S., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, 2012
B.A., Peace Studies, Goucher College, 2008

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