Blanca Gamez-Djokic, Ph.D.

Dr. Gamez-Djokic teaches doctoral-level courses in several NCE programs, including Higher Education Leadership and Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Gamez-Djokic is a qualitative researcher of the intersections of race, gender and affect; teaching and learning interactions, and collaborative education reforms, such as research-practice partnerships. Specifically, her work examines how the affective and gendered dimensions of race are mediated in educational contexts, with a focus on whiteness. Dr. Gamez-Djokic's work has examined the politics of melancholia as it relates to white women teachers and questioned the role of shame and guilt in catalyzing "white double consciousness."  Her research also examines research-practice partnerships (RPPs) as a form of education reform, and in particular, the experience of individual partnership actors, such as teachers. She examines how actors take up their roles and what their experiences reveal about the organizational and cultural politics of RPPs and their broader impact. 

Swarthmore College, B.A.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M.
University of California, Berkley Graduate School of Education, Ph.D.

Publications
Leonardo, Z., & Gamez-Djokic, B. (2019). Sometimes leaving means staying: Race and white teachers’ emotional investments. Teachers College Record, 121(13), 1-22. 

Eppley, A., Gamez-Djokic, B., & McKoy, D. L. (2020). Cultivating Inclusion: Belonging and Agency in Young Black Men through Civic Action Research. The Canadian Journal of Action Research, 21(2), 72-90.

bgamezdjokic@nl.edu 
312-261-3548