Blanca Gamez-Djokic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
EDD Teaching & Learning
National College of Education
Dr. Gamez-Djokic teaches doctoral-level courses in several NCE programs, including Higher Education Leadership and Teaching and Learning.
Blanca's research explores the cultural politics of educational collaboration, with attention to how affect, gender, race, and power shape partnerships, pedagogy, and knowledge-construction.
Swarthmore College, B.A.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M.
University of California, Berkley Graduate School of Education, Ph.D.
Publications
Gamez-Djokic, B. (2026). From Effective to Affective Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP): Bridging Empirical and Post-Qualitative Approaches to Study RPPs as Affective Cultural Forms. Qualitative Inquiry, 10778004251414999
Gamez-Djokic, B. (2024). Of boundaries and borders: A micro-interactional examination of consensus and knowledge-construction in a research-practice partnership. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 45, 100802.
Eppley, A., Gamez-Djokic, B., & McKoy, D. L. (2020). Cultivating Inclusion: Belonging and Agency in Young Black Men through Civic Action Research. The Canadian Journal of Action Research, 21(2), 72-90.
Leonardo, Z., & Gamez-Djokic, B. (2019). Sometimes leaving means staying: Race and white teachers’ emotional investments. Teachers College Record, 121(13), 1-22.
bgamezdjokic@nl.edu
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