Dr. Adrienne D. Dixson is an Associate Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. She is an Associate Faculty member in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Women's Studies and is an Affiliated Faculty member in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity. Dr. Dixson received her PhD in Multicultural Education and Curriculum Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She began her career in education in the New Orleans Public School District as a 6th grade teacher at Charles E. Gayarre Elementary School. Currently, she teaches courses on Critical Race Theory and education and urban education. Dr. Dixson's research focuses on race and racial and gender identities in urban schooling contexts. Most recently, she was awarded the Fire and Focus Award from Joyce Beatty, Senior Vice President of Outreach and Engagement, at The Ohio State University for her teaching in the area of equity and education. In April 2009, she won the Kappa Delta Pi/AERA Division K 2009 Early Career Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. She has published extensively on educational equity and urban schools and on culturally relevant pedagogy. Her co-edited book with Celia K. Rousseau Anderson (University of Memphis), Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song (2006, RoutledgeFalmer Press). CRT in Education received the 2006 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
Dr. Dixson's research focuses on race and racial and gender identities in urban schooling contexts. Theoretically, she situates her scholarship within Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist theories and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. In 2005, she received a $15,000 Special Projects grant from the P-12 Project for her research on urban middle school students' perceptions of middle school. In 2006, she received a small grant ($500) from the Kirwan Institute on Race and Ethnicity to continue the project.
Her most recent publications include "Tyranny of the Majority: Re-enfranchisement of African American Teacher Educators Teaching for Democracy" (with Jeannine E. Dingus), International Studies in Qualitative Research Journal (Nov. 2007); "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Black Women Teachers and Professional Socialization," (with Jeannine E. Dingus) Teachers College Record (Spring 2008, available online, November 2007) as well as her co-edited book with Celia K. Rousseau Anderson (University of Memphis), Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song (2006, RoutledgeFalmer Press). CRT in Education received the 2006 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
Dr. Dixson teaches graduate courses on educational equity and diversity (EDT&L 815), culturally relevant pedagogy (EDT&L 928), critical race theory (EDT&L 925) and multicultural education (EDT&L 830 and EDT&L 976). At the undergraduate level, she teaches courses on urban education (A&S 138 and A&S 338).
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