Rachel Lockart is a white settler scholar whose work draws on and contributes to the fields of teacher education, comparative and international education, theories of de/coloniality, critical policy analysis, and critical approaches to the anthropology of education. In her interdisciplinary research, she utilizes critical ethnographic and other qualitative methods, critical discourse analysis, and narrative analysis. Her research explores how teacher recruitment, education, and employment policies in Senegal sustain coloniality, as well as how some educators disrupt, refuse, or resist coloniality.

As an educator, Dr. Lockart is most passionate about teaching classes that support students in questioning their own schooling experiences – past, present, and future – and making connections to the policies, narratives, and dispositions that shaped them. She has worked as a tutor coordinator in the St. Paul Public Schools (MN); a secondary teacher and teacher educator in Cameroon; an education abroad advisor at the University of Illinois and Macalester College; and a teacher educator and grants/fellowships advisor at Michigan State University (MSU). She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from MSU, an M.A. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota, and a B.A. in Anthropology from Macalester College.

curriculum vitae

Fellowships:

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, College of Education, Michigan State University, 2024.
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education, 2020.
• Dissertation Development Fellowship, Dept. of Teacher Education, College of Education, Michigan State University, 2019, 2020.
• Summer Research Fellowship, College of Education, Michigan State University, 2018.
• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Wolof, U.S. Dept. of Education, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
• University Distinguished Fellowship, The Graduate School, Michigan State University, 2016-2021.

• Research Enhancement Award, The Graduate School, Michigan State University, 2023.
• Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CIEG), Michigan State University, 2021.
  
  • Note: Awarded to Decoloniality Dialogues Collective with additional funding from Michigan State University’s African Studies Center and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s African Studies Program.
• Gliozzo Overseas Dissertation Research Scholarship Award, International Studies & Programs, Michigan State University, 2019.