Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban
Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the 2005-2006 president of the
American Educational Research Association. Ladson-Billings'
research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are
successful with African American students. Her work has won
numerous scholarly awards including the H.I. Romnes faculty
fellowship, the Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer
O. Johnson Outstanding research award. In 2002 she was awarded an
honorary doctorate from Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and in
2003-2004 was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is the 2004
recipient of the George and Louise Spindler Award for ongoing
contributions in educational anthropology, given by the Council on
Anthropology & Education of the American Anthropological Association.
E-mail Gloria Ladson-Billings at
gjladson@facstaff.wisc.edu