Faculty Fellow, Women's Leadership
Amanda B. Richey, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of TESOL in the Inclusive Education
Department at Kennesaw State University. She served as the Director of Global Engagement
for the Bagwell College of Education from 2018-2020. During that time, she directed
the international student teaching program for students in their yearling clinical
teaching experience. Currently, Dr. Richey currently teaches in the graduate TESOL
programs. Richey’s research has focused on the intersection of language education,
culture, narrative, and curriculum, with a particular interest in the MENA (Middle
East and North Africa) region, the experience of Muslim families and faith communities
in the U.S., and the representation of Muslims and Islam in official school curricula.
An example of this work is the co-written article “Orientalism(s), world geography,
and temporal paradox: questioning representations of Southwest Asia and North Africa”
in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Additionally, she has
published in the areas of women’s literacies and educational experiences and has worked
recently with international colleagues on issues of women’s leadership. Her co-edited
book (with Linda Evans) Mothering and Literacies, explores the intersections of culture,
motherhood, and literacy practices in multicultural, multilingual contexts.
Richey has published and delivered workshops on the topic of Islamophobia and education
in many different contexts. As a Fulbright Scholar to Jordan during the 2014-15 academic
year, Richey taught English teaching methods and other applied linguistics courses
in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan and worked at with
the program, Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins teaching EFL and education
pedagogy to adult refugee students. Richey has an extensive background in narrative
inquiry and oral history interviewing and has recently published a co-written chapter
and article on transforming teacher collaboration to include approaches to oral history
and community asset-mapping.