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Thais Council, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education

Dr. Thais Council joined the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor of Literacy in the College of Education and a Faculty Affiliate of African American and Africana Studies in 2021 after nearly two decades as a reading specialist, literacy advocate, and teacher educator. Her scholarship focuses on how literacy policy and Black-led community-based practices can repair structural inequities and harm imposed upon historically marginalized urban schools and disenfranchised communities. She employs the Black Intellectual Tradition as a theoretical lens to privilege the lives and wisdom of Black people and participatory research methods as a methodological alternative to academic research conducted through a hegemonic gaze.

Contact Information
thais.council@uky.edu
347 Dickey Hall
(859) 257-2371
Research Interests
  • Black Education
  • Black Reparatory Literacies
  • Community-Engaged/Participatory Action Research
  • Black Intellectual Tradition
Affiliations
  • African American and Africana Studies