Dr. Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson is an assistant professor of the social foundations of education and is interested in the ways that Indigenous, Black, and Islamic knowledges resist and thrive in the West, despite dominant Western educative practice.

Before coming to the university, Dr. Henderson spent ten years as a high school literature and composition teacher, both in-person and online. She also parents five children who have schooled in traditional public and private settings and who have also unschooled. Dr. Henderson understands that these multiple roles in her life – learner and learned, professor and parent – have inherent importance individually and, combined, are invaluable to her teaching and research practice. For the more information about her most recent research, see ourcontingence.net.

• Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2016
• M.A., Teaching English, Agnes Scott College, 2003
• B.A., History, Agnes Scott College, 2001

Limes-Taylor Henderson, Kelly. “‘Contingent Beings’: On White Supremacy and an Islamic Framework.” Thresholds in Education 41, no. 2 (Summer, 2018): 101-117.

Limes-Taylor Henderson, Kelly. “The Story of One Hundred and Sixteenth, Part 1: On Mothers and Daughters.”  Unity: An Anthology. Scott Depot, WV: Mountain State Press, In press.

Esposito, Jennifer, Taneisha Lee, Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson, Amber Mason, Anthony Outler, Justina Rodriguez Jackson, Roslyn Washington, and Laura Whitaker-Lea. “Doctoral Students’ Experiences with Pedagogies of the Home, Pedagogies of Love, and Mentoring in the Academy.” Educational Studies, 53 no. 2 (2017): 155-177.

Limes-Taylor Henderson, Kelly.  “On Academic Repression, Blackness, and Storytelling as Resistance.” Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education: Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education.  Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Erik Juergensmeyer. New York: Peter Lang, 2017.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly and Jodi Kaufmann.  “An Autoethnography in Four Acts or a Bright Humiliation.”  Qualitative Inquiry 20, no. 5 (June, 2014): 551 – 559.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Study of a Semester: A Book of Poems.” Qualitative Inquiry 20, no. 5 (June, 2014): 628-634.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Footnotes to Injustice.” HipMama 55 (Summer, 2014): 26-27.

Collections

Limes-Taylor, Kelly. The Samenia Wilson Limes Collection. Curated by Morna Gerrard, Women’s Collection Archivist, Georgia State University’s Special Collections and Archives. Live on June 22, 2017. http://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=640984

Publications under Review

Limes-Taylor Henderson, Kelly. “‘I had never been at home in the world’: A Case for Black Indigenism.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society. Submitted for review May, 2016.

 

Presentations

Limes-Taylor Henderson, Kelly.  “The Story of One Hundred and Sixteenth.”  Paper presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, March 10-11, 2017.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Methodology and ‘A Glossary on Postmodernism (Written in the Age of Genocide-as-End).” Paper presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champagne, Illinois, May 21-24, 2014.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly. “School or Freedom?  On United States Compulsory Schooling as a Colonizing Force [Historical/Legal].”  Paper presented at the Southern History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 21-22, 2014.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “School or Freedom?  On United States Compulsory Schooling as a Colonizing Force [Theoretical].”  Paper presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, Decatur, Georgia, February 21-22, 2014.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Compulsory Education as a Colonizing Force.”  Paper discussion at Sudbury School of Atlanta, Decatur, Georgia, February 4, 2014.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Researcher, Participant, Daughter, Mother: Analyzing a Conversation.” Paper discussion with Georgia State University’s College of Education class EPRS 8520 (Qualitative Research in Education), Atlanta, Georgia, June 11, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Researcher, Participant, Daughter, Mother: Analyzing a Conversation.” Paper presented at the Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 15-18, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly. “‘A we that needed no other’: Black Women Writing Our Re-Creation.” Paper presented at the Southeast Women’s Studies Association Conference (“Outrage: Discourses, Practices, and Politics of Protest and Social Transformation”), Greensboro, North Carolina, April 18-20, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “Making Education Safe for Business: Foreign Education and United States Education.” Paper (co-authored with Rosalyn Martin) presented at the Southern History of Education Society Annual Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 15-16, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  “To accept whiteness, to truly believe in it, is to deform oneself”: On Sylvia Wynter and the Construction of Whiteness and Blackness.”  Paper presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 1-2, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly and Anthony Outler.  “When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: A Review of the Literature and Autoethnographies on Non-Traditional Doctoral Student Socialization and Mentoring.” Paper (co-authored with Kim Ramsey White) presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 1-2, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly.  Discussion of Denis Goulet’s “In Defense of Cultural Rights:  Technology, Tradition and Conflicting Models of Rationality.” Presentation to Dr. Joyce King’s Alasal Tarey Research Team, Atlanta, Georgia, January 10, 2013.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly and Elise Tiller.  “Unschooling.”  Presentation to Georgia State University’s College of Education class 2110 (Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education), Atlanta, Georgia, November 7, 2012.

Limes-Taylor, Kelly. “Educating Zion: The African Hebrew Israelites, 1966-1993.”  Paper presented at the Southern History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida, March 9-10, 2012.