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Kaleb Germinaro, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Email:

kaleb@uic.edu

About

Dr. Kaleb Germinaro (he/him) is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is a learning scientist, human geographer, educator and disability researcher in out of school contexts. His scholarship focuses on how learning environments and spatial knowledge facilitate the learning of space and place through stories. His most recent work takes ethnographic approaches to better understand how transdisciplinary learning experiences prompt shifting spatial orientations, knowledge and relations across Black, disabled and youth ecologies and geographies. Studying Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, he went on to focus his masters’ on Human Development at the Graduate School of Education at Penn, obtaining his PhD in Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Washington.