Faculty profile: Nathalis Wamba

Nathalis Guy Wamba, PhD

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Post-doctoral fellow. Central European University, Budapest. Hungary
PhD New York University
MA New York University
License en Sciences Economiques Internationales, UNAZA/Lovanium

About

Nathalis Wamba is a Professor in the Education and Instructional Leadership program within the Department of Educational and Community Programs at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ, City University of New York (CUNY). He graduated from New York University (NYU) and completed post-doctoral fellowship in educational policy at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Before joining the faculty at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ in 2005, Professor Wamba served as a Senior Researcher at NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy, where he co-spearheaded research evaluating charter schools across New York State and the United States. His current scholarship critically focuses on participatory action research, decolonization and decoloniality, the impacts of neoliberalism on public education, post-modern and trans-modern theories, and cognitive justice.

A globally recognized scholar, Professor Wamba is a three-time Fulbright recipient, having served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Flex Scholar at Mzuzu University in Malawi, as well as a Specialist Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork in Ireland. He also received an USAID-funded grant to study education inclusion in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Other academic honors include a Roothbert Fellowship, as well as NYU’s Samuel Eshborn Award and Paul Lomax Doctoral Award for scholarship. Professor Wamba has authored and edited numerous monographs, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles, along with four books.

Selected Publications

Books & Monographs

• Theus, B., Demero, V., Wamba, N., & Maltais, M. (2026). Mémoire de l’esclavage, héritage et décolonisation du savoir. Editions UNIFOCAD.
• Wamba, N. (Ed.). (2012). Poverty and literacy. London: Routledge.  
• Wamba, N., Foster, U., Davis, E., Jones, J., & Storck, B. (2010). Exit narratives: Reflections of four retired teachers. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.  
• Wamba, N., & Citro, T. (Eds.). (2010). Learning differences: Research, practice and advocacy. Weston, MA: Learning Disabilities Worldwide.  

Peer Review Articles

• Fish, M., Wamba, N., Matuza, T., & Cooperstone, J. (2025). An exploration of collaboration between school psychologists and school administrators. Psychology in the Schools, 1–13.
• Pai, G., Silbeberg, E., & Wamba, N. (2024). Alternative pedagogies to advance equity in undergraduate STEM courses: A systematic review of literature. Journal of STEM Education Research.
• Wamba, N. (2021). School leadership in the era of neoliberalism. Psychologie a její kontexty, 12(2), 23-38.
• Wamba, N. (2020). Interrogating self-regulated learning hegemony through learning, de-learning and re-learning pedagogy. AERA SSRL SIG, 3(7).
• Woolf, S., & Wamba, N. (2018). Embracing intersectionality to create a collective living theory of practice. Action Research, 16(4).