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Kevin Lam

Lâm Kevin

Professor, Urban and Diversity Education, Drake University · Des Moines, Iowa

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Research areas

Urban Education
Critical Pedagogy
Vietnamese American Youth
Race and Education
Youth Violence
Cultural Studies
Political Economy

Education and training

PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS: California State University, Los Angeles, 2001
Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles, 1997

Selected honors

Critics' Choice Book Award, for Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context (2016)
Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, Early Career Scholars Fellow (2013)