Refereed Journal Articles Please visit Academia.edu or ResearchGate for access to publications. Ezzani, M. & Brooks, M.C. (2019). Culturally relevant leadership: Advancing critical consciousness in American Muslim students. Educational Administration Quarterly. Online before print.
Brooks, M.C. & Brooks, J.S. (2018). Culturally (ir)relevant school leadership: Ethno-religious conflict and school administration in the Philippines. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 21(4), 1-21..
Brooks, M.C. & Mutohar, A. (2018). Islamic school leadership: A conceptual framework. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(2), 54-68.
Brooks, M.C. (2017). Southern Filipino school leaders and religious diversity: A typology. International Journal of Educational Management, 31(5), 1-16.
Brooks, M.C., & Ezzani, M. (2017). “Being wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring one Islamic school’s efforts to educate against extremism. Teachers College Record.
Brooks, M.C., & Sungtong, E. (2016). “We still have bombings”: School principals and insurgent violence in Southern Thailand. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 19(5). 505-533. doi: 10.1080/13603124.2015.1059489
Brooks, M.C., & Jean-Marie, G. (2015). The challenges to and the need for international research in educational leadership. International Journal of Educational Management, 29(7). 874-887. doi: 10.1108/IJEM-05-2015-0069
Brooks, M.C. (2015). School principals in Southern Thailand: Exploring trust with community leaders during conflict. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 45(2). 232-252. doi: 10.1177/1741143213513191
Ezzani, M., & Brooks, M.C. (2015). (Mis)Understanding Islam in a suburban Texas school district. Religion & Education, 42(3), 237-354. doi: 10.1080/15507394.2015.1013408
Brooks, M.C., & Sungtong, E. (2014). Leading in conflict zones: Principal perceptions of armed military guards in southern Thai schools. Planning & Changing: An Educational Leadership and Policy Journal, 45(3/4). 356-380.
Brooks, J.S., Arnold, W.N., & Brooks, M.C. (2013). Educational leadership and racism: Second-generation segregation in an urban high school. Teachers College Record, 115, 1-27. ID Number: 17182
Brooks, M.C. (2013). How does a Muslim teacher fit?: One teacher’s journey into and out of the American public school system. Religion & Education, 41(1). doi: 10.1080/15507394.2013.855086
Brooks, M.C., & Brooks, J.S. (2013). What can school leaders do about violence in schools? Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 10(2), 115-118. doi:10.1080/15505170.2013.849627
Brooks, M.C. (2010). Religious conversion to Islam and its influence on workplace relationships in American and Egyptian schools: A case study. Educational Policy, 24, 83-109. doi:10.1177/0895904809354319
Brooks, M.C. (2008). Hegemony. In E. Provenzo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Brooks, J.S., Hughes, R., & Brooks, M.C. (2008). Fear and trembling in the American high school: Educational reform and teacher alienation. Educational Policy, 22(1), 45-62. doi: 10.1177/0895904807311296
Brooks, M.C. (2007). Charting the “false maps” of Australian aboriginal education: Rethinking education policy from a general semantics perspective. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 64(2), 135-143.
Brooks, J. S., & Brooks, M.C. (2006). Some “new” extensional devices2006. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 63(1), 62-68.
Brooks, M.C., & Brooks, J.S. (2005). Whole language or phonics: Improving language instruction through general semantics. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 62(3), 271-280.
Book
Brooks, M.C. (in press). Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension: Inside an American Muslim School. Routledge.
Edited Books
Brooks, M.C., & Brooks, J.S. (2015). Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice: International Perspectives. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Arnold, N.W. & Brooks, M.C. (2014). Critical Perspectives of Black Education: Spirituality, Religion, and Social Justice. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Book Chapters
Brooks, M.C. & Brooks, J.S. (in press). Dynamics that impede and facilitate educational effectiveness in the Philippines. In P. Chan and V. Fernandes (Eds.), Asia Pacific Education: Leadership, Governance, and Administration. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Brooks, M.C. (2017). Grassroots leadership for ecological sustainability, empowerment, and political change: Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement. In J.S. Brooks and A. H. Normore (Eds.), Leadership Lessons: Great Thinkers on Equity, Justice and Education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Brooks, M.C., & Brooks, J.S. (2015). Exploring the challenges of cross-cultural and international teaching, research, and service: Perspectives from faculty. In N.D. Erbe and A.H. Normore (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Leadership in Modern Organizations. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Brooks, M.C. (2015). Teaching in Cairo: Exploring gender, social class, and workplace relationships. In J.S. Brooks and M.C. Brooks (Eds.), Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice: International Perspectives (pp. 257-274). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Brooks, M.C. (2015). Vignette: Keeping school safe from attack in Southernmost Thailand. In R. Papa and F. English (Eds.), Educational Leaders Without Borders: Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All Children (pp. 1-38). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Brooks, M.C., & Singsong, E. (2015). The challenge of multicultural education during insurgency: The case of Pattani, Thailand. In G. Jean-Marie (Ed.), Comparative International Perspectives and Social Change in Developing Countries and Indigenous People in Developed Countries. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Brooks, M.C. (2014). Introduction: The critical links among spirituality, religion, and black education. Critical Perspectives of Black Education. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Brooks, M.C. (2014). Circuitous routes, hurdles, and obstacles: Finding my career as a trailing spouse. In Whitney Sherman Newcomb’s (Ed.), Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership (p. 117-127). Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Sungtong, E. & Brooks, M.C. (2013). Developing from assistant to full principal in a context of social unrest: The case of southern Thailand. In Normore, A.H. & Erbe, N. (Eds.), Collective efficacy: Interdisciplinary perspectives on international leadership (p. 309-324). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Brooks, M.C. (2012). myworklifebalance.edu. In Joanne Marshall, Jeffrey S. Brooks, Kathleen M. Brown, Leslie Hazle Bussey, Bonnie Fusarelli, Mark A. Gooden, Catherine A. Lugg, Latish C. Reed, & George Theorharis’, (Eds.), Juggling Flaming Chainsaws: Faculty in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Life. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Book Reviews
Brooks, M.C. (2015, October). Review of the book Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney, Robert. Teachers College Record. ID Number 18170.
Brooks, M.C. (2014, September). Review of the book Migrants and Refugees: Equitable Education for Displaced Populations, edited by Elinor L. Brown and Anna Krasteva. Teachers College Record. ID Number 17677.
Brooks, M.C. (2014, February). Review of the book Religious Education Politics, the State, and Society, edited by Ansgar Jödicke. Comparative Education Review, 58(1), 183-184.
Editorials
Brooks, M.C. (2018). Islam and educational leadership: Advancing new spaces for dialogue and understanding. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(2), 51-53.
Witherspoon-Arnold, N., Arnold, B. and Brooks, M.C. (2013). Religion, spirituality and the schooling of Black students. Religion & Education, 40(2), 123-124.
Editor, Special Issues of Journals
Brooks, M.C. (2018). Islam and Educational Leadership. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(2).
Arnold, N.W., Arnold, B., & Brooks, M.C. (2013). Religion, spirituality and the schooling of Black students. Religion & Education, 40(2).
Durrani, S., Bossaller, J. & Brooks, M.C. (2011). Struggle to create libraries for the people: a progressive international perspective. Information Society & Justice Journal, 4(2). London Metropolitan University.