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Faculty Research Profiles: Adrienne Dixson

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Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
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Research Biography

My primary research interest focuses on how issues of race, class and gender intersect and impact educational equity in urban schooling contexts. I locate my research within two theoretical frameworks: Critical Race Theory and Black feminist theories. My colleague, Celia K. Rousseau-Anderson, and I edited CRT in Education: All God's Children Got a Song (2006, Routledge) one of the first book-length texts on CRT in education. Most recently, I am interested in how educational equity is mediated by school reform policies in the urban south. Specifically, I am interested in school reform in post-Katrina New Orleans, how local actors make sense of and experience those reform policies and how those policies become or are "racialized."

Degrees

  • PhD, Multicultural Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
  • MA, Educational Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1997
  • BA, Music Theory and Composition, Youngstown State University, 1990

Activities & Honors

  • Ebony Excellence Awards, Most Supportive Faculty, Ebony Excellence Awards, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 2012- present
  • Member, Standing Committee on Communication and Outreach, AERA, 2012-2015
  • Co-Facilitator, Professional Development, AERA, 2012
  • Editorial Board Member, National Education Policy Center, 2011- present
  • Member, Think Tank Review Panel, National Education Policy Center, 2011- present
  • Member, American Educational Research Journal, 2011- present
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue, Teachers College Record, 2011
  • Secretary, AERA, Division G, 2010-2013
  • Early Career Research Award, Division K, American Educational Research Association, 2009- present
  • Editorial Board Member, Teachers College Record, 2004- present

Selected Publications

  • Dixson, A.D. & Dodo-Seriki, V. (In press). Positional and Identity Theories in Qualitative Research In Audrey Trainor & Beth Graue, Eds., Publishing Qualitative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Guide for Reviewers and Researchers. New York: Routledge.
  • Dixson, A.D. (2012). Straight, no chaser: Race and Music Education. Advances in Music Education Research, Vol. 5 (1-11).
  • Cook, D. & Dixson, A.D. (2012). Writing critical race theory and method: A composite counter-story on the experiences of Black teachers in New Orleans post-Katrina. Manuscript submitted to, International Journal of Qualitative Studies.
  • Dixson, A.D. (2011). Whose Choice?: A critical race perspective on charter schools. In Cedric Johnson, Editor, Neo-Liberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, late capitalism and the remaking of New Orleans. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Hopson, R.K. & Dixson, A.D. (2011). Guest editors, special issue on race and ethnography. Ethnography and Education.

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