Michael Kemeh
Professional Title: Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Gender; HIV/AIDS and theater for development issues in Africa with focus on Ghana; Readers Theater for diversity, literacy, and social studies enrichment in US after-school programs
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Creative arts in learning; drama; early childhood and elementary education
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Integrated Arts Approaches in the Curriculum
Drama and Critical Literacy
Transformational Leadership through Drama
Drama for Community Leadership
Early Childhood Arts, History, and Social Science
Educator Inquiry
Education: Ph.D., Kansas State University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- "Theater by women for the socio-economic improvement of rural women in Ghana," published in V. Marcow-Speiser & M.C. Powell (Eds.). (2005). Little signs of hope: Arts, education, and social change. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
- Adapted and directed "Ananse and the Birds," Readers Theatre performance at the Black Box Theater, Woburn Boys & Girls Club, Woburn, MA. November 2008.
Dr. Kemeh is the coordinator of the Creative Arts and Early Childhood and Creative Arts and Elementary programs at Lesley. During his post-graduate teacher training for his Postgraduate Certificate in Education from University of Leeds, UK, he taught in British secondary schools and colleges, and has taught at the University of Ghana, where he had coordinated numerous theatre for development outreach projects connected with issues on health, adult literacy, teen pregnancy, and women's socio-economic improvement. Dr. Kemeh loves sharing his expertise in integrating drama into classroom curriculum with educators. He also has great passion for using "theatre for development" for education, mobilization, and improvement of the lives of people in marginalized communities. He successfully adapted this theatre technique to address multicultural and social issues through workshops in elementary, middle, and high schools in the states of Washington, Arizona, and Kansas.
mkemeh@lesley.edu