Adrienne Dixson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Contact Info:

• E-mail: dixson.1@osu.edu
• Office: 210E Arps
• Phone: (614) 247-8461
• Fax: (614) 292-7695

Mailing Address:

• 1945 N. High St.
• Columbus, OH 43210-1172

Biographical Information:

Dr. Adrienne D. Dixson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning. She has courtesy appointments in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Women's Studies (member, Planning and Events Committee) and is an Affiliated Faculty member in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. She was a 6th grade teacher in a P-6 public school in New Orleans, LA. During her doctoral study, Dr. Dixson taught academic writing courses for middle and high school students in two pre-college programs serving under-represented youth in Madison and Milwaukee, WI. For the middle school program, she developed and taught a course for adolescent girls of color called, For Us By Us: Literature by and about Women and Girls of Color.

Education:

• 1985-1989 - attended Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, LA., Flute Performance and Jazz Studies major
• 1990 - B.A. in Music Theory and Composition, Youngstown State University
• 1997 - M.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• 2002 - Ph.D in Multicultural Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research and Scholarship

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.

Publications

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.

Selected Courses Taught

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).