I’m a qualitative researcher and community-engaged scholar.
And I’m fascinated by the possibilities that open when we approach education research and reform from a place of historical realism, radical imagination, and active hope.
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
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I’m a first-generation Burkinabé-American, and my childhood was full of fantasy novels, Reading Rainbow re-runs, and an abiding curiosity about why people acted the way they did.
This led me to undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Comparative Human Development, and Education & Society at the University of Chicago.
My doctoral career in Educational Psychology and certificate in Urban Education at Michigan State University honed my interests in Black students’ resilience in collegiate settings, as well as the potential of engaging Black Futurities—such as afrofuturism and africanfuturism—as pedagogies.
My dissertation research uses Octavia Butler’s concept of HistoFuturity as the basis for a theoretical and epistemological (re)orientation within education research.
I’m a poet, photographer, and I’m currently the Managing Editor of Educational Psychologist.
You can reach me at mouzaoir@msu.edu.
You can find out more about my professional and scholarly commitments on my Linkedin page. All photos on this website are my own (I’m a big fan of leaves and flowers!) except the portrait up top (merci, Papa!)