M. Francyne Huckaby is Associate Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of Curriculum Studies, former Director of the Center for Public Education, and core faculty of Women and Gender Studies, Africana and African American Studies, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. Her honors include the TCU Deans' Teaching Award for the College of Education, TCU Mortar Board Preferred Professor, and Straight for Equality from Fort Worth's PFLAG chapter, as well as Outstanding Dissertation (2007 AERA, Qualitative Research SIG) for Challenging the Hegemony in Education: Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Care of the Self, and Relations of Power.