postcolonial music, art, and literature
Greg Dimitriadis is interested in new ways of thinking about urban education and the policies which serve urban youth. More specifically, he is interested in the potential value and importance of non-traditional educational curricula (e.g., popular culture), programs (e.g., arts-based initiatives), and institutions (e.g., community centers) in the lives of disenfranchised young people. His work has appeared in several books as well as journals including Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Educational Theory, Popular Music, Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Theory and Research in Social Education.
Dimitriadis is the author of Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice (Peter Lang) and Friendship, Cliques, and Gangs: Young Black Men Coming of Age in Urban America (Teachers College Press, Columbia University). He is co-author of Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial: From Baldwin to Basquiat and Beyond (Teachers College Press, Columbia University) and On Qualitative Inquiry (Teachers College Press, Columbia University).
Dimitriadis is co-editor of Promises to Keep: Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life (RoutledgeFalmer), Learning to Labor in New Times (RoutledgeFalmer), and Race, Identity, and Representation in Education (Second Edition) (RoutledgeFalmer).
Dimitriadis forthcoming books include: Studying Urban Youth Culture (Peter Lang), Theory for Education (RoutledgeFalmer), and Ideology and Curriculum in the 21st Century (RoutledgeFalmer).
Dimitriadis is a member of the SUNY Press editorial board. He also co-edits a section of the journal JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (Caddo Gap Press) (“Perspectives on Contemporary Cultural Texts”) and is a member of the founding editorial board of Cultural Studies / Critical Methodologies (Sage Press).
Greg Dimitriadis is former Vice President and current Executive Committee Chairperson of Musicians United for Superior Education, Inc. (MUSE, Inc.). A non-profit organization, MUSE, Inc. provides performance-based arts instruction for hundreds of children in community centers and schools throughout Buffalo, New York.
