Darder, Antonia

epicpolicy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:50:17 -0600

Antonia Darder is a professor of educational policy studies and Latino/a studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her research focuses on comparative studies of racism, class and society. Her teaching examines cultural issues in education with an emphasis on identity, language, and popular culture, as well as the foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino studies, and social justice theory. As a recipient of a Kellogg National Fellowship, she studied the education and culture of indigenous children in the Andes.

E-mail Antonia Darder at adarder@uiuc.edu

Lubienski, Christopher

epicpolicy — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:03:19 -0600

Christopher Lubienski is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, where he studies education policy, reform, and the political economy of education. His research focuses on the intersections of public and private interests in education in areas such as school choice, charter schools, voucher programs, and home-schooling. In 2005, he was selected as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow for a project using geo-spatial analyses to examine the equity effects of schools’ organizational behavior in “local education markets.

E-mail Christopher Lubienski at club@uiuc.edu