About
Dr. Frederick V. Engram Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Integrative Studies in Social Science at Michigan State University where he teaches Social Differentiation and Inequality. Dr. Engram has previously published his work in Forbes, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Blavity, and a host of peer reviewed journal articles. Dr. Engram has been featured on NBC, TMZ, People TV, Tavis Smiley and Roland Martin. Dr. Engram is known for his work in critically assessing the ways that racism and anti-Blackness impact Africans Americans in both systems of higher education and the criminal justice system. Dr. Engram will publish his first book titled, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" via Hamilton Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield in 2023.
Current Work
Dr. Engram's scholarship focuses on listening to the voices of African American graduate students at the master's level. This particular demographic of students are largely forgotten about in most higher education research regarding racist experiences. He uses his scholarship to shine a light on this demographic because not only are they largely forgotten in the literature they're also forgotten about on campus. This is reflected in various ways such as: recruiting and GFA offers, university town hall discussions, programming, opportunities for mentoring, ignoring the preferred value of sameness, and internships/fellowships. Dr. Engram's upcoming projects focus on disrupting the hold that whiteness attempts to have on our voices and lived experiences in higher education. It is my intent to continue to create literature that unapologetically disrupts the status quo and breaks free from the control of white centered voices.
Research Area Keyword(s)
hbcu's, pwis, racism, white manning, school-to-prison pipeline, misogynoir, anti-racism