Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
464c Teacher Education Building
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 263-1006
Email: gjladson@wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
Stanford University, Ph.D. Curriculum & Teacher Education, 1984.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Educational anthropology, cultural studies, critical race theory applications to education.
On-Campus Affiliations:
African Studies Program
Honors and Awards:
Honorary Doctorate, Umeå University , Sweden
2003-2004 Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
George and Louise Spindler Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education (November 2004)
Palmer O. Johnson Award (1995)
Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1989)
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Offices Held in National Professional Associations:
President-Elect, AERA (2004-2005)
Editorial Board Memberships:
Educational Policy
Urban Education
Pedagogies
Professional Affiliates:
Member, American Anthropological Association
Member, National Council of Teachers of English
Research Affiliates:
Minority Student Achievement Network
Current Research Projects:
DuBois and education (book length project)
Lives of African American Teacher Educators (project funded by Spencer small-grant program)
Recent and Representative Publications:
Gloria Ladson-Billings. Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education. New York: Teachers College Press (in press).
Gloria Ladson-Billings. "Landing on the wrong note: The Price we paid for Brown." Educational Researcher, 33(7), 3-13.
Gloria Ladson-Billings. "New Directions in Multicultural Education: Complexities, Boundaries, and Critical Race Theory," in James A. Banks and Cherry A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, Second Edition (p. 50-65). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Click here for PDF version
Gloria Ladson-Billings and Jamel Donner. "The Moral Activist Role of Critical Race Theory Scholarship," in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition. Click here for PDF version
Courses Taught:
C&I 744: Multicultural Perspectives in Education
C&I 844: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
