Lori Ungemah

Faculty Fellow

Lori D. Ungemah received her Doctorate of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in International Education Development with a focus on Curriculum and Teaching. She taught in Title I secondary schools in Brooklyn for a eleven years before becoming an English professor and founding faculty member at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. Her research explores how curriculum includes or excludes various groups of students in a multiethnic urban high school through the voices of students and teachers. Professor Ungemah is interested in issues related to curriculum development, cultural relevance and sustainability, and urban education. For this year’s CPCP fellowship, she is exploring how a first year ethnographic research course on education sparks a critical consciousness in community college students. Additional academic and personal interests include creativity in curriculum, concepts of college readiness, participatory action research, young adult literature and urban fiction.

Participating Years

2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?