Graham B. Slater, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
gslater@siue.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Utah (2018)
M.A., University of Colorado Boulder (2012)
B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2010)
Specialization:
Critical Theory & Cultural Studies; Education Policy; Philosophy & Sociology of Education
Office
Alumni Hall 1114
About Dr. Slater
Dr. Slater teaches courses in the Educational Administration program. He joined SIUE in 2023 after previously teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno. During the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Marriner S. Eccles Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Utah. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.
Research Profile
Dr. Slater studies the impact of political economic, cultural, policy, ecological, and technological changes on education and society. His research has been published in top international journals in education, cultural studies, and social theory, as well major research handbooks, including the Handbook of Critical Approaches to the Politics and Policy of Education and the Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform. In addition to his scholarly work, he has written commentary on the politics of education for Truthout.
His first book, Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education, will be published by Routledge in 2024. He also co-edited Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) with Alexander J. Means and Derek R. Ford.
Currently, he is working on two major projects. The first examines the ideologies behind far right-wing approaches to education policy and public discourse. The second explores the relationship between education, desire, and politics in an era of ecological crisis and technological change.
Recent Publications
- Graham B. Slater, Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education (New York: Routledge, 2024).
- Graham B. Slater, (ed.), “Science Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Education.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (forthcoming, 2024).
- Graham B. Slater, “Algorithmic Anxiety and the Automation of Education.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (forthcoming, 2024).
- Alexander J. Means and Graham B. Slater, “Collective Disorientation and Catastrophic Precarity in the Hypermodern Era.” Cultural Politics 18, no. 2 (2022): 227-246.
- Gregory N. Bourassa and Graham B. Slater, “The Biopolitical Turn in Educational Theory: Autonomist Marxism and Revolutionary Subjectivity in Empire.” Educational Philosophy and Theory 54, no. 7 (2022): 964-973.
- Graham B. Slater, “Terms of Endurance: Resilience, Grit, and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Education.” Critical Education 13, no. 1 (2022): 1-16.
- Alexander J. Means and Graham B. Slater, “Educational Commons as Critique and Aspiration: Confronting the Civil War, Decolonization, and Ecological Crises,” in Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education: Reflexive Dialogue and Prospective Inquiry, eds. Radhika Gorur, Paolo Landri, and Romuald Normand (New York: Routledge, 2023).
- Graham B. Slater, Robert G. Unzueta, and Clayton Pierce, “The Spectre of Enclosure in School Gardens: An Ecocritical Pedagogy for the Commons,” in Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, eds. John Lupinacci, Rita Turner, and Alison Happel-Parkins (London: Brill, 2022), pp. 61-78.
- Graham B. Slater, “The Precarious Subject of Neoliberal Education: Resilient Life in the Catastrophic Conjuncture,” in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Approaches to Policy and Politics of Education, eds. Kenneth J. Saltman and Nicole Nguyen (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 151-160.
- Graham B. Slater and Alexander J. Means, “Progressive Neoliberalism and the Poverty of the Educational Imaginary,” in Progressive Neoliberalism and Education, eds. Ajay Sharma, Mardi Schmeichel, and Beth Wurzburg (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 19-30.
