ELA Faculty and Student Present Research at UCEA Conference in Puerto Rico
Educational Leadership & Administration community presented research on equity, leadership preparation and STEM programming at the 2025 UCEA conference.
Dr. Christine Nganga
Dr. Christine Nganga
Associate Professor, Educational Administration
School: Graduate School of Education and Human Development
Department: Educational Leadership, Cross-Disciplinary
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Dr. Christine Nganga
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Dr. Nganga's research interests include narrative inquiry, inclusive leadership practice with a social justice focus and mentoring theory and practice. She is the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award by the Association of Teacher Educators.
Dr. Nganga holds her masters in school administration and doctorate in educational leadership from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Prior to joining GW, she was an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University and has held appointments as a high school and middle school teacher in Kenya.
- Leadership and Equity for Social Justice
- Teaching Academic Writing
- Mentorship including Peer Mentorship
- Narrative Inquiry
- Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Graduate Classrooms
- Online Curriculum Design
- December 2025 - Dr. Christine Nganga co-edited a special issue in The Urban Review Journal, along with Dr. Shannon Waite from Howard University, entitled, "Engaging in Pedagogies of Resistance and Disruption in Urban School Leadership Preparation."
- October 2024 - Drs. Christine Nganga, , Deniece Dortch, and Tiffany Sikorski co-organized the session, "Where does research ethics mentorship happen in your EdD Program?" for the 2024 Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate Annual Convening. Special thanks to doctoral student Zhongxin Zheng (Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction concentration) for assisting with materials for the session.
- In addition, Dr. Nganga was a panelist at the Convening along with the editors and contributors of the newly published text, The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change. Dr. Nganga wrote the forward to the book.
- November 2022 - Dr. Christine Nganga co-authored a book chapter entitled, "Transnational Feminist Understandings of the Neoliberal Recruitment of International Women Teachers of Color," in the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, which has been published by American Educational Research Association (AERA). "This handbook is a comprehensive and powerful assemblage of work that looks at research on teachers of color and indigenous teachers. More importantly, it showcases the voices of the next generation of scholars who will lead in this area and push the research and literature to the next level. It is a must-have for teacher educators."—Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
Dr. Christine Nganga co-authored a book chapter with GSEHD alumna Dr. Melissa Ledesma (Ed.D., Educational Leadership and Administration).