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JAMES D. ANDERSON
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Head/Professor, Educational Policy Studies
Professor of History, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Ph.D., History of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973
M.Ed., History and Social Studies Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969
B.A., Sociology, Stillman College, 1966 |
Research Areas:
Dr. Anderson’s past research has focused on the history of African American education in the South from 1860-1935, the history of higher education desegregation in southern states, the history of public school desegregation, institutional racism, and the representation of Blacks in secondary school history textbooks. His current research projects include the history of African American public higher education and the development of African American school achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Activities & Honors:
Appointed Honorary Professor, Chongquing, P. R. China, Southwest China Normal University, 1998-1999 Spencer Mentor Award, The Spencer Foundation, 1998-1999 Appointed Guest Honorable Professor, Yunnan University, 1998-1999 President, History of Education Society, 1992-1993
Selected Publications:
• Anderson, J. D. (1997). Philanthropy, the state and the development of Historically Black Public Colleges: The case of Mississippi. Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 35(3), 295-309.
• Anderson, J. D. (1995). Literacy and education in the African American experience. In V. L. Gadsen & D. A. Wagner (Eds.), Literacy among African-American youth, (pp. 19-37). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Anderson, J. D. (1993). Race, meritocracy, and the American academy during the immediate post World War II era. History of Education Quarterly (33)2, 151-175.
• Anderson, J. D. (1990, summer). Black Rural Communities and the Struggle for Education During the Age of Booker T. Washington, 1877-1915. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 67, No. 4 (published in 1992), 46-62.
• Anderson, J. D. (1988). The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Press.
• Anderson, J. D. (2004) Crosses to bear and promises to keep: The jubilee anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Urban Education 39(4), 359-373.
• Anderson, J. D. (In Press) The historical context for understanding the test score gap. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. |
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