Carl A. Grant Lecture Series

Past Carl A. Grant Speakers

• Rican Vue, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of California, Riverside — “Narrative Stitching Across Contact Zones: Hmong American Student Cartographies of War, Migration, and Belonging” — April 2026
• Darnel Degand, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis — “The Past, The Present, and The Truth: Comics as a Medium for Activism and Legacies” — March 2026
• Anna Haskins — Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame — “Teachers Talk: How School Personnel ‘Find Out’ About Parental System Involvement” — November 2025
• LaRon Scott, Professor, University of Virginia — “Addressing Leadership Gaps: Navigating the (Un)Pathways of Special Education Teachers of Color — March 2025
• Meseret F. Hailu, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia — “Engineering Jobs on the Horizon? A Closer Look at East African Undergraduate Women’s Insights” — December 2024
• Jordan Conwell, University of Texas at Austin — “Educational Attainment and Wealth Mobility in the Student Debt Cohort” — November 2024
• Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, Assistant Professor, UCLA — “How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America” — October 2024
• Marissa Thompson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University — “My School District Isn’t Segregated: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information on Parental Preferences Regarding School Segregation” — November 2023
• Stefanie Marshall, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Michigan State University — “What if I (We) Don’t? Leading to Mobilize a Human Infrastructure for Equitable STEM Education” — October 2023
• Phillip Caldwell II, Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University, College of Education — “The Intersectionality of Educating Black Students in Michigan: Public School Finance, Racial Segregation, and Housing Policy” — March 2023
• Jamaal Matthews, Associate Professor, Combined Program in Education and Sociology, University of Michigan — “How Student Voice Revived My Scholarship & Soul” — February 2023
• Kerry-Ann Escayg, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Omaha — “Systemic, Integrative, and Transformative: The Vision and Goals of Anti-Racist Early Childhood Education” — February 2023
• Juan Del Toro, Research Associate at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), University of Pittsburgh — “Integrating Social Science and Behavioral Genetics to Understand the Antecedents and Consequences of Racial Discrimination” — April 2022
• Quentin Wheeler-Bell, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, Indiana University — “Rethinking Racial Domination in Education: A Critical Approach” — March 2022
• Jarvis R. Givens, Assistant Professor of Education, Faculty Affiliate, African & African American Studies, Harvard University — “The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power” — September 2021
• Winston C. Thompson, Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Philosophy, The Ohio State University – “Theorizing Educational Justice: Political & Educational Considerations” — March 2021
• Zandra de Araujo, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Missouri — “Countering Narratives About English Learners in Mathematics” — February 2021
• Jessica Stovall, Doctoral Student, Race Inequality and Language Education, Stanford University — “The Power of Humanizing Pedagogy on Minoritized Youth” — March 2020
• Ayesha S. Boyce, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina – Greensboro — “Teaching and Attending to Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Program Evaluation” — February 2020
• Dana Miller-Cotto, Learning Research & Development Center, University of Pittsburgh — “Toward an Understanding of Working Memory and Math Performance Inside and Outside the Classroom” — May 2019
• Lesley-Ann Noel, 2018–2019 Ocean Design Fellow, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University — “Using Critical Design Thinking to Create an Emancipatory Research Agenda” — April 2019
  • “Workshop: What Is Emancipatory Design Thinking and How Can We Use It to Address Racial Disparities in Schools?”
• Jennifer Langer-Osuna, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education, Stanford University — “Identity, Engagement and Learning Mathematics: Unpacking the Process of Becoming in Collaborative Classrooms” — March 2019
• Derrick R. Brooms, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati — “#BlackOnCampus, Campus Racial Climates and Black Men’s College Experience” — January 2019
• S. Craig Watkins, Professor of Radio-Television-Film, and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin — “Future Ready: Why Schools Must Matter in the Digital World” — November 2018
• Sam Rocha, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Education, University of British Columbia — “The Humanities as Pre-Qualitative Research” — April 2018
• Crystal Laura, Associate Professor of Education, Chicago State University — “Against the Prison Pipeline: Laboring Toward Love, Toward Justice, with Joy” — 2017
• Jamel K. Donner, Associate Professor, School of Education, The College of William & Mary — “Cowan v. Bolivar County, Resistance to Brown, and the Forging of Racial Fortuity” — 2017
• Mica Estrada, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Institute for Health & Aging, University of California – San Francisco — “The Influence of Kindness and Community in Broadening Participation in STEM Careers” — 2017
• Karida Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bunche Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles — “The Subaltern School” — 2017
• Stafford Hood, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Education Psychology, College of Education, University of Illinois — “Continuing the Untold Legacy of African Americans in the History of American Evaluation: Another Installment in the Nobody Knows My Name Project” — 2017
• Manya Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Education, Colorado College — “Teaching to and Through Social Justice” — 2017
• Terrenda White, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, Practice & Policy, University of Colorado – Boulder — “School Privatization and Black Teacher Decline: Why A Critical Race Policy Framework is Necessary for Improving Teacher Diversity in Schools” — 2016
• Roberto G. Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education — “Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America” — May 2016
• Eva Lam, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University — “Multimodal Voicing and Scale-Making in Documentary Media: Exploring Youths’ and Practitioners’ Work” — April 2016
• James Minor, U.S. Department of Education — “The National Higher Education Agenda and the Role of Innovation and Research” — February 2016
• Chezare A. Warren, Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University — “Why Empathy? Why Now? Cultivating Dispositions for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy” — October 2015
• Celia Genishi, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University — “My Mommy Doesn’t Speak English: Supporting Young English Learners and Their Teachers” — October 2015