Frederick Engram Jr.

Frederick Engram Jr.

Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Peter Sammartino School of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office Location: Mailstop: T-BH2-01

Courses

  • History of Higher Education
  • Dissertation Prep in Higher Ed
  • Diversity/Social Justice in Higher Ed
  • Intro to Critical Race Theory
  • Building Inclusive University Culture
  • Enrollment Management

Research 

  • Critical Race Theory (CRT)
  • Misogynoir
  • Higher Education
  • PWIs
  • HBCUs
  • Disruptive DEI
  • Anti-Racism
  • Anti-Blackness
  • Performative DEI
  • White manning
  • School-to-prison Pipeline
  • Abolition
  • Black joy

  • Qualitative Research-Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

Education

  • BA, Johnson C. Smith University ’05
  • MS, University of Phoenix ’09
  • EdD, Northeastern University ’19

Academic Profile

Dr. Frederick V. Engram Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His previous academic appointments include Michigan State University, the University of Texas at Arlington, Radford University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northeastern University.

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. He also gave a TEDx Dallas College Talk titled Black Joy as an Act of Resistance in 2021.

Dr. Engram is known for his work in critically assessing the ways that racism and anti-Blackness impact African Americans in both systems of higher education and the criminal justice system. Dr. Engram’s first book titled, “Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE” via Hamilton Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield was published in October 2023.

He is an HBCU grad – having received his undergraduate degree in criminology from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC – and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc.

Frederick V. Engram Jr., Ed.D. he/him/his Assistant Professor-Higher Education Peter Sammartino School of Education Fairleigh Dickinson University Author of Black Liberation through Action and Resistance: MOVE

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