Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello

Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello (he/him) is an accomplished early-career transdisciplinary artist and scholar who draws on Black critical theories to advance research on knowledge production and human development. Most immediately, he is concerned with how Black critical approaches make visible the epistemic foundations that structure what it means to be human and imagining otherwise possibilities for Black being therein. He is also concerned with how theories of Blackness might reconfigure understandings of racialized stress and trauma, qualitative inquiry, critical masculinities, and curriculum and pedagogy to create conditions of possibility in the education context and society.

Dr. Okello is an assistant professor of higher education at Penn State University, where he is a research associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and director of the Black Study in Education Lab at CSHE—a research and praxis hub concerned with exploring the potentialities of Blackness in educational research, practice, and policy.

College Students and Their Success
Foundations of Higher Education and Student Affairs
Black Theoretical Frameworks and Research Approaches

Recent Papers

Okello, W.K., & Savage, S. (2024). “Wholeness is no trifling matter”: Toward an epistemology of care, touch, and celebration in education. Education Sciences. 14(3), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14030217
Okello, W.K. (2024). Unspeakable joy: Anti-Black constraint, loopholes of retreat, and the practice of Black Joy. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859241227956

Areas of Expertise

Education

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