Christopher B. Knaus, Ph.D.

Professor
Phone
253-692-4715
Office hours
virtually by appointment - email me!
Campus Box
358435
Introduction

Dr. Christopher B. Knaus serves as Professor of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. A race scholar and critical race theory practitioner, Dr. Knaus examines how systems of intersectional oppression (racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, islamophobia, and related interwoven oppressions) shape schools, districts, colleges, and ideas of learning that intentionally silence students, educators, communities of color and those who differ from presumed and violently enforced white middle class hetero norms.

Dr. Knaus additionally works to foster educational leadership pathways, including educator of color preparation and support programs that transform towards radically humanistic, critically conscious, creative, localized, decolonial educations. Dr. Knaus collaborates 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
2023

Knaus, C. B. (2023). Disrupting whiteness as higher education: Towards a systemic decoloniality. International Journal of Educational Development in Africa. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/IJEDA/article/view/12109/6512

2023

Pocklington, A., Flanagan, E. J., & Knaus, C. B. (2023). Selling Graduation: Higher Education and the Loaning of Liberation. Essays in Education, 29(1), Article 6. https://openriver.winona.edu/eie/vol29/iss1/6/

2022

Knaus, C. B. (2022). Educational Apartheid: Resisting Whiteness in South African Schools. In D. C. Hucks, Y. Sealey-Ruiz, V. Showunmi, S. C. Carothers, & C. W. Lewis (Eds), Purposeful Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts: Implications for Access, Equity, and Achievement, 277-286. Information Age. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Purposeful-Teaching-and-Learning-in-...

2022

Knaus, C. B., Mino, T., & Seroto, J. (2022). Decolonising African Higher Education: Practitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Decolonising-African-Higher-Education-Practiti...

2021

Webster, C., & Knaus, C. B. (2021). “I Don’t Think They Like Us”: School Suspensions as Anti-Black Male Practice. Journal of African American Males in Education, 12(1), 66-88. https://jaamejournal.scholasticahq.com/article/22064-i-don-t-think-they-...

2020

Rogers-Ard, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2020). Black Educational Leadership: From Silencing to Authenticity. New York: Routledge. Accessible here: https://www.routledge.com/Black-Educational-Leadership-From-Silencing-to...

2020

Knaus, C. B., & Perkins, R. (2020). The virus of whiteness. Africa Is A Country, March 8, 2020. Retrieved at: https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/the-virus-of-whiteness

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

Rogers-Ard, 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. https://www.gyocollective.org/uploads/1/1/9/4/11945381/the_grow_your_own...

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. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051570

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.
Available: http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/969/1039

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. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-6209-785-8

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. https://www.amazon.com/School-Sucks-Alternative-Educational-Psychology-d...

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. https://www.amazon.com/School-Sucks-Alternative-Educational-Psychology-d...

2011

Knaus, C. B. (2011). Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts in Urban Schools. New York: Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108588

2006

Knaus, C. B. (2006). Race, Racism, & Multiraciality in American Education. Washington DC: Academia. https://www.amazon.com/Race-Racism-Multiraciality-American-Education/dp/...