Research Spotlight: Dr. Pauli Badenhorst
Q & A with Dr. Pauli Badenhorst, Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning
What are your research interests and research achievements?
I engage crosscutting transnational race and racism-related scholarship informed by cosmopolitan antiracist, self/social nexus psychodynamic, and poststructural modes of inquiry for advancing relational antiracism possibilities across curriculum, schools, and society. My areas of expertise include scholarship grounded in qualitative research methodologies & conceptual-theoretical analyses; curriculum & teacher education; race & ethnicity; social psychodynamics; poststructuralism & philosophical pessimism. In particular, I am concerned with critical social psychodynamic exploration of both racist / antiracist subjectivities, their psycho-compensatory emergence and social effects. My peer-reviewed sole and co-authored work has been published in competitive venues like Teaching & Teacher Education, Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of International Migration and Integration, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Latinos and Education, and English Education, among others, plus first-editor International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and Teachers College Press book publications. [Google Scholar]
How does your work align with UTRGV’s and CEP’s strategic plans?
The scope of my emergent scholarship traverses several interrelated UTRGV and CEP-16 strategic plan priorities. My dominant stream of research engaging crosscutting transnational race and racism-related scholarship for advancing relational antiracism possibilities across curriculum, schools, and society pipes into the creation of educational opportunities via innovative, cutting-edge, intersectional antiracist and anti-oppressive conceptual-praxis advancement. In turn, RGV-focused grant-based collaboration around practice-based community-engaged pedagogy in HSI teacher preparation foregrounds equity-grounded student success enabled by the integration of scholarship, professional and life experiences as well as community partnerships. Furthermore, my mentoring collaboration with graduate students nurtures a larger research enterprise generative of knowledge, discoveries, and creativity.
How does your work align with UTRGV’s and CEP’s strategic plans?
Presently, I am engaging several concurrent crosscutting race and racism-related scholarship projects. These include short and long-term, individual and local / trans-institutional collaborative research enterprises, at various stages of production, that host implications for curriculum, teacher education, and broader society. In addition, I am co-chairing the 2024 New Directions: Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge Program of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C.