Dr. Miriam D. Ezzani
An Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at Texas Christian University. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, faith, and power in American schools, places where institutional authority shapes who belongs, who leads, and whose identity is honored or erased. Dr. Ezzani studies how schools navigate the complexity of culturally and religiously diverse communities, undergirded by the conviction that culturally responsive leadership is more than a framework but a moral call to action.
New Book: Islam, Education,
and Freedom
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A defining thread of Dr. Ezzani’s work focuses on Islamic school leadership, a terrain that remains underexplored, where the stakes for identity, equity, and freedom are hanging in the balance for Muslim students. Her new book, Islam, Education and Freedom (Bloomsbury), co-authored with her long time research partner Melanie C. Brooks, asks what it means to build institutions that honor faith, cultivate critical consciousness, and resist pressures to assimilate. How schools are led will determine whether education becomes liberation or containment.
Dr. Miriam D. Ezzani 