Kevin D. Lam

Kevin Lam is Professor of Urban & Diversity Education at Drake University, USA. He was born in Vietnam and raised in Los Angeles-Chinatown. Lam received his PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching interests include Vietnamese/Asian American youth violence, critical theory of racism, critical pedagogy, urban education, and political economy. Lam is the author of Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context (Palgrave, 2015), recipient of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book Award. He is co-editor of The Critical Pedagogy Reader, 4th edition (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of The Selected Works of Antonia Darder: On Theory, Politics, and Struggle (Bloomsbury, 2025).