Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton

Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton is a Black motherscholar who prioritizes scholarship in service of her community. A veteran educator with 16 years of K-12 experience, her research and teaching focus on Black Educational Studies, Black Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, intersectionality, and the sociology of race and education. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit organization Making Us Matter and a co-founding editor of The Black Educology Mixtape “Journal.” Her scholarship investigates the complex intersections of race, identity, and gender, with work appearing in peer-reviewed journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Race Ethnicity and Education, and Educational Studies. Her work continues to explore interdisciplinary themes deeply informed by and engaging with Black intellectual traditions, as seen in her forthcoming book Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences.

• Black educational studies
• Critical pedagogy
• Qualitative methods

• Sociology of race and education
• Black feminist thought
• Intersectionality
• Black critical race theory

• University of San Francisco, EdD, International & Multicultural Education (2024)

• Adjunct Lecturer in International & Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco (2025-present)
• Clinical Associate in the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University (2024-present)
• Adjunct Lecturer in the Kalmanovitz School of Education, Saint Mary’s College of CA (2014-2020)

• Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2026). Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences. Routledge.
• Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2024). “I am my hair: A Black woman educator’s autoethnography of oppression and liberation through school, bantu knots, box braids, locs and a press.” Harvard Educational Review, 94(4), 515–537.
• Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2025). Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence. In Black Motherscholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity (pp. 111-122). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2024). We will not walk through rotten orchards: Abolition and (re)nourishing the soil of black communities through insulated praxis in education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 1-15.
• Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2023). We are transformers: On being black, women, and pedagogues. Equity, Excellence, and Education, 56 (4), 622-635.