Derrick P. Alridge
- Professor of Education, School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia
- Director, Center for Race and Public Education in the South
Derrick P. Alridge is the founding director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South and principal investigator of the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project. He is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, former postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, and currently serves as a distinguished lecturer for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In 2021 and 2022, Education Week listed him among the top 200 most influential scholars in education. In 2020, he was the Tisch Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Teachers College and delivered the Tisch lecture. Alridge has published in numerous journals, including the History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and The Journal of Negro Education. He currently serves as an associate editor for The Journal of African American History.
Events
Race, Learning, and American Democracy
Derrick P. Alridge, Laurent Dubois, Bobbie Laur, Tia Brown McNair, Jeremy C. Young
An examination of the nation’s racial learning landscape and the actions that educators can take to help all students fully explore our nation’s past and, going forward, contribute to societal choices about racial healing.
