ABSTRACT
This conversation between three scholars from different disciplines and racial backgrounds examines how the question of systemic racism in the United States is related to teaching international leadership research. The authors consider the role of their own positionality in teaching research methods and designs. They also offer a range of practical resources – readings, lessons, approaches to syllabi – that can help pay more deliberate attention to Whiteness, colonialism, and racial hierarchies in pedagogical approaches. As such, the dialogue models the directions we need most in teaching international research: (a) cross-disciplinary conversations, (b) epistemic humility instead of “epistemic dominance” (Stein, 2017), and (c) a crosspollination of ideas that allows for challenging and changing our own assumptions, categories, and definitions of leadership.
