Kevin M Foster


Kevin M Foster
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor, Center for African and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 471 4362
Email: kmfoster@mail.utexas.edu

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Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
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Lauren Macknight (primary)
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Foster is an educational anthropologist dedicated to understanding and accounting for the social, cultural and structural factors affecting students' educational outcomes. He is also the founding director of ICUSP, the Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships. He has published extensively in areas related to African American students' academic engagement and achievement, including examinations of the work of the late anthropologist John Uzo Ogbu, serving students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and Black student identity and community.

Foster believes in rich ethnographic work as an important basis for understanding students' academic lives. He also believes in action oriented research and in institution building as means to facilitate positive changes in communities and schools. As an integral part of his scholarly vision, Foster collaborates with students, teachers, principals and others to collectively develop programs. He is the co-founder of COBRA (Community of Brothers in Revolutionary Alliance), which predominantly serves African American and Latino boys in Title I high schools and promotes their academic and leadership development. In 2006 Dr. Foster was named the LBJ Presidential Library Faculty volunteer of the year.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
email

Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
email