Dr. Adrienne D. Dixson currently serves as a
Professor of Critical Race Theory and Education at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Dixson is on leave from the university
this year to serve as a Program Director in the National Science
Foundation's new, Racial Equity Program. Dr. Dixson's scholarship
examines the intersectionality of race, class and gender in urban
educational contexts, with a particular interest in how these issues
impact educational equity for students and people of color in the urban
south. Her work is widely published in academic journals and edited
books.Her most recent books include Critical Race Theory and Education: All God’s Children Got a Song, Handbook of Critical Race Theory and Education, Resegregation of schools: Education and race in the 21st Century (Routledge), Researching race in education: Policy, Practice and Qualitative Research (IAP Publishing), and A condition or a process?: Researching race in education (American Education Research
Association). She was listed in the 2021 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public
Influence Ranking and was inducted in the 2021 cohort of Fellows for the
American Educational Research Association. Her research has been funded
by the Spencer Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the National
Science Foundation.
