Professional Biography
Nuraan Davids is professor of philosophy of education and the chair of the department of education policy studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She is an NRF-rated researcher whose research interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic philosophy of education, and philosophy of higher education. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2020–2021).
She is a co-editor of the Routledge series, World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies and an associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education. Her most recent books include Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability (Springer, 2023) and Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship (African Minds, 2022). She teaches a module on leadership, identity, diversity, and crises for the Global Higher Education Management program at Penn GSE. The module seeks to expose students to understanding identity in leadership, engaging with diversity, and recognizing the inevitability of disagreement and crises.
