A Selection of Dr. Wisam Abdul-Jabbar's Publications

Research Interests

Intercultural dialogue; Diasporic Identity; Cross-Cultural Studies; Intercultural Education

Experience

(2022-present) Visiting Professor; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; HBKU. 
(2021-present) Faculty Member; College of Education; Yorkville University.
(2018-2022) Adjunct Professor; College of Education; University of Alberta.
(2021) Sessional Lecturer; College of Education; Thompson Rivers University. 
(2018-2019) Sessional lecturer; School of Continuing Education; MacEwan University.
(2016-2018) Postdoctoral Fellow; Werklund School of Education; University of Calgary.
(2014-2018) Sessional Lecturer; Department of Secondary Ed.; University of Alberta.

Education

(2018) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Intercultural Education; University of Calgary; Canada.
(2016) PhD in Multicultural Education; University of Alberta; Canada.
(2011) MA in English Literature; Lakehead University; Canada.
(2008) MA in Humanities and Interdisciplinarity; California State University; Canada.
(2000) MA in English Literature; University of Baghdad; Iraq

Honors and Awards

(2021) Support of Scholarly Activity Funding; Yorkville University, Canada
(2019) Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Letter of Endorsement; University of Calgary, Canada
(2018) SSHRC Postdoctoral Scholarship; Federal (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
(2017) The Bacchus Graduate Research Prize; University of Alberta, Canada. 
(2015) Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize; University of Alberta, Canada.    
(2013) The University President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction; University of Alberta, Canada.
(2012) SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship; Federal (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
(2012) JDH McFetridge Graduate Scholarship/University of Alberta, Canada.
(2011) Department Doctoral Prize of Academic Distinction; University of Alberta, Canada.  

Selected Publications Since 2015

Books

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2023). Medieval Muslim philosophers and intercultural communication: 
Towards a dialogical paradigm in education. London: Routledge.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2019). Negotiating diasporic identity in Arab-Canadian students - double 
consciousness, belonging, and radicalization. Cham: Palgrave, Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. & Yeung, M. (In Press). Intercultural mentorship in English as additional 
language: Negotiating critical communication literacy. In A. Atay & D. Trebing. Interculturally mentoring in intercultural contexts. Peter Lang.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (In Press). The maladies of Canadian multicultural education: Slipping into 
a period of decadence? In O. Bilash (Ed). The Impact of multiculturalism on public education: 50 years later - a home for us all? Leiden: Brill.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2019) Toward a bountiful curriculum: An intercultural encounter with 
Al-Farabi’s pedagogy of proximity and synthesis. In Strong-Wilson, Ehret, Lewkowich, & Chang-Kredl (Eds). Provoking Curriculum Encounters: New engagements with the curriculum theory archive, (pp. 116-131). London: Routledge.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2018). The Spacing of the Hegemonic Chora in the Curriculum of First
Language Attrition. In Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Carl Leggo (Eds). Canadian curriculum studies: A Métissage of inspiration/imagination/interconnection, (pp. 47-55). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. & Chopoidalo, C. (2017). Intersectional Selves, Diversity and Contexts: 
Kristeva’s Intertextuality in Multicultural Pedagogy. In E. Lyle (Ed). At the intersection of selves and subject: Exploring the curricular of identity, (pp. 63-69). Sense Publishers.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2016). Mobilizing citizenship education in the Arab World: Toward a 
pedagogy for democracy. In P. R. Carr, P. L. Thomas, B. Porfilio & J. Gorlewski (Eds.), Democracy and decency: What does education have to do with it? (pp. 291-305), Information Age Publishing.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). Reclaiming the citizen and renouncing citizenship: A case study 
of an Arab woman. In A. A. Abdi, L. Shultz and T. Pillay. (Eds.), Decolonizing global 
citizenship education (pp. 131-141), Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2022). Diasporicity and intercultural dialectics: Conceptualizing a 
minorities curriculum. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 54(2). 204-216

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2021). Covid-19 viral logics, social equality and hegemonic Mimicry: 
Deconstructing the language of cultural parasite. Culture and Dialogue. 9(2). 265-284

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2021). Intercultural dialogue, diaspora and the divided self in Nasrallah’s 
Canadian fiction. Arab Studies Quarterly. 43(4). 320-332

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2021). Foucauldian Parrhesia and Avicennean contingency in Muslim 
education. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 53(12). 780-797

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2020). Al-Kindi on education: The intercultural Minhaj and 
interdisciplinary curriculum theorizing. Curriculum Inquiry. 50(3). 262-280

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. & Sabah, Ali (2019). Sarcasm as postcolonial dialogue: Blogging,
cultural hegemony and resistance. Culture and Dialogue. 7(2). 167-184. 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2019). The intercultural deterritorialization of knowledge: Al-Ghazali and 
the enunciation of the educator’s rihla. Teaching in Higher Education. 24(3), 318-331

Abdul-Jabbar. W. Kh. (2019). Towards intercultural dialogue, synthesis and pluralism: 
Revisiting 9th Century Baghdad’s House of Wisdom. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. 58(2), 371-391.

Abdul-Jabbar. W. Kh. (2018). Habermas, cultural hegemony and the educational public sphere. 
Contemporary Arab Affairs. 11(1-2), 39-58. 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2017). Teaching the blog: Using digital literacy to dismantle stereotypes. 
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 39(2), 220-233.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2017). Arab Diasporic Masculinity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent (2003): 
The return of the Unheimlich. Arab Studies Quarterly. 39(1). 741-757.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2016). The internalized vermin of exile in Montreal: Rawi Hage’s 
Cockroach. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 52(1), 168-182.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2016). Baghdad College and the geopolitics of desire: The Jesuit presence. 
Middle Eastern Studies. 53(2), 198-210. 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). The rise of the unsaid: Spaces in teaching postcolonial literature. 
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. 21(3). 221-231.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). Internalized Arab diasporic identity: Revisiting the Duboisian 
Double Consciousness. Contemporary Arab Affairs, 8(1), 54-65.

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). Pedagogical reflections on internalizing geopolitical representations 
in print media. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 6(2). 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). Toward a minor cinema: A Deleuzian reflection on Chahine’s 
“Alexandria Why?” The Journal of North African Studies. 20(2). 159-171. 

Abdul-Jabbar, W. Kh. (2015). Lacanian selfhood, parental figures, and trauma in Zainab Salbi’s 
Between Two Worlds. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 11(2), 161-178.