Faculty member since 2019
Khalilah Ali, Ph.D., is an associate professor and admissions coordinator for Education.
Ali received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a focus on Literacy, Pedagogy, and Culture from Emory University, and her M.Ed. in Middle and Secondary Instruction and B.A. in English Literature and African Studies from Georgia State University.
Realizing that education can come from both inside and outside the classroom, she is dedicated to ensuring that her students’ education takes a multitude of forms. Her research is theoretically grounded in critical feminist and hip hop pedagogies. Dr. Ali's upcoming research focuses on Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE), hidden curricula, and the educative nature of new media as it merges with elements of hip-hop culture.
Dr. Ali emphasizes abolitionist education, and accesses a womanist hip-hop framework to confront educational inequity and to prepare future teacher leaders.