Christopher Knaus, Ph.D.
Dr. Christopher B. Knaus currently serves as Professor of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. A race scholar, critical race theory practitioner, and educator, Dr. Knaus examines how systems of oppression (racism, and intersectional sexism, heterosexism, classism, islamophobia, and other oppressions) shape schools, districts, colleges, and ideas of learning that intentionally silence communities of color and those who differ from presumed and enforced white middle class hetero norms.
Dr. Knaus additionally works to foster urban educational leadership pathways, including conceptualizing educator of color preparation and support programs to transform from colonizing education towards a radically humanistic, critically conscious, liberatory education. At the core of community and systems transformation, Dr. Knaus centers urban youth voice as a way to help educators create inclusive, challenging classrooms and schools that arm children to transform the immediate world they live into a world where addressing social inequalities becomes the purpose of education. A global scholar, Dr. Knaus works in South Africa, across the United States, and regionally on the West Coast.
For ongoing educator preparation work, see https://www.gyocollective.org/
| Publication Date | Bibliographic Citation |
|---|---|
| 2019 |
Kennemer, C., & Knaus, C. B. (2019). Towards Compassionate Care: A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching in Township Schools. Education as Change, 23, 1-21. Open access: https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/5995 |
| 2019 |
Ard, R. R., Knaus, C. B., Bianco, M., Brandehoff, R., & Gist, C. ( 2019). The Grow Your Own Collective: A Critical Race Movement to Transform Education. Teacher Education Quarterly, 46(1), 23-34. |
| 2018 |
Knaus, C. B. (2018). “If Everyone Would Just Act White”: Education as a Global Investment in Whiteness. In J. Brooks and G. Theoharis (Eds.), Whiteucation: How Privilege, Power and Prejudice is Destroying School and Society. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. |
| 2018 |
Knaus, C. B., & Brown II, M. C. (2018). The absence of indigenous African higher education: Contextualizing whiteness, post-apartheid racism, and intentionality. In M. C. Brown II & T. E Dancy II (Eds.), Black colleges across the Diaspora: Global perspectives on race and stratification in postsecondary education (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, Vol. 14), 263-288. Emerald Publishing. |
| 2017 |
Knaus, C. B. (2017). “A Fairy Tale in a Song is No Message”: Leadership Lessons from Oliver Mtukudzi and The Black Spirits. In T. Watson, F. Beachum, & J. Brooks (Eds.), Educational Leadership and Music, 137-148. Information Age Publishing. |
| 2017 |
Knaus, C. B. (2017). Push Out: Racial Dynamics at a Turnaround School. Rethinking Schools, 31(2), 34-37. |
| 2016 |
Knaus, C. B. (2016). “We Talk But We Don’t Say Shit”: Education and the Silencing of Voice. In T. Marsh & N. Croom (Eds.), Envisioning a Critical Race Praxis in K–12 Leadership Through Counter-Storytelling, 3–23. New York: Information Age Publishing. |
| 2016 |
Chetty, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2016). Why South Africa's Universities Are in the Grip of a Class Struggle. The Conversation, 1/13/2016: http://theconversation.com/why-south-africas-universities-are-in-the-gri... |
| 2016 |
Knaus, C. B., & Brown, M. C, II (2016). Whiteness is the New South Africa: Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism. New York: Peter Lang. Available here. |
| 2015 |
Marsh, T., & Knaus, C. B. (2015). Fostering Movements or Silencing Voices: Learning from Egypt and South Africa, Leading Against Racism. International Journal of Multicultural Education, Special Issue on Anti-Racist Leadership, 17(1), 188-210. |
| 2014 |
Knaus, C. B. (2014). What if We All Wore Hoodies? Educational Silencing of Black Male Voices. In V. E. Evans-Winters & M. C. Bethune (Eds.), (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom, 163-186. Boston, MA: Sense Publishers. Available online: Sense Publishers. |
| 2014 |
Knaus, C. B. (2014). Seeing What They Want to See: Racism and Leadership Development in Urban Schools. The Urban Review, 46(3), 420-444. Available here. |
| 2013 |
Rogers-Ard, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2013). From Colonization to RESPECT: How Federal Education Policy Fails Children and Educators of Color. ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal and Social Policy: Vol. 3(1), 1-32. Available at: http://ecipublications.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=ijlsp |
| 2013 |
Knaus, C. (2013). Developing Urban Youth Voice: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Classrooms. In R. Brock & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), School Sucks! Arguments for School Change in Urban Education, 9-42. New York: Peter Lang. (Reprinted from Knaus (2011). Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts in Urban Schools, available here and here). |
| 2013 |
Knaus, C. (2013). You Are the Ones Who Need to Hear Us: The Role of Youth Voice in a Democracy. In R. Brock & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), School Sucks! Arguments for School Change in Urban Education, 64-98. New York: Peter Lang. (Reprinted from Knaus (2011). Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts in Urban Schools, available here and here |