Researching the relationships among education, media, race, global politics and violence in 20th-century decolonial movements in Southern Africa, Naseemah Mohamed was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the UVA Humanitarian Collaborative over the last three years. Her most recent manuscript projects document the use of education as a political, ideological and physical tool of war during Zimbabwe's war of independence from the white settler government in Rhodesia (1964–1980) and the present use of Rhodesia as a global symbol of white supremacy.  

Mohamed earned both her master's degree and doctorate in comparative and international education policy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her bachelor's degree in African studies and social studies from Harvard University, where she also completed a pre-doctoral fellowship.  

This academic year, Mohamed will teach courses titled “Education and Conflict in Africa,” “Transnational liberation movements within the Cold War context,” and “Indigenous policy making in the 21st century.”