Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at Emory University and was president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2019–20.[1][2] Walker has studied the segregation of the American educational system for twenty-five years and published the non-fiction work The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.[3][4][5]

Education

Walker graduated from Bartlett Yancey High School in Yanceyville, North Carolina.[6] She received her B.A. in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by both an M.Ed and Ed.D. from Harvard University.

Books

As author

As editor

  • (with John R. Snarey) Race-ing Moral Formation (Teachers College Press, 2004)[11]
  • (with Sheryl J. Croft and Tiffany D. Pogue) Living the Legacy: Universities and Schools in Collaborative for African American Children (Rowan and Little, 2018)[12]

Award and honors

Walker's awards and honors include:

  • Grawmeyer Award for Education[13]
  • AERA Early Career Award[14]
  • Conference of Southern Graduate Schools[15]
  • American Education Studies Association[16]
  • Three awards from AERA Divisions, including Best New Female Scholar, Best New Book, and Outstanding Book
  • 2019–20 President of the American Educational Research Association[17]

References

  1. ^ "Vanessa Siddle Walker Voted AERA President-Elect; Key Members Elected to AERA Council". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  2. ^ "Vanessa Siddle Walker Voted AERA President-Elect". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  3. ^ "11 Books Feminists Should Read In July". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  4. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by Vanessa Siddle Walker. New Press, $32.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-620971-05-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  5. ^ Roth, Michael S. (2018-08-21). "'The Lost Education of Horace Tate' Review: Civil Rights for Schoolchildren". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  6. ^ "Bartlett Yancey High School". Retrieved February 8, 2025.
  7. ^ Walker, Vanessa Siddle (1996). Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South. University of North Carolina Press, P. ISBN 9780807845813.
  8. ^ "Facing Racism in Education". hepg.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  9. ^ Walker, Vanessa Siddle; Byas, Ulysses (2009). Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South. University of North Carolina Press. doi:10.5149/9780807888759_walker. ISBN 9780807832899. JSTOR 10.5149/9780807888759_walker.
  10. ^ "The Lost Education of Horace Tate". The New Press. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  11. ^ "Race-ing Moral Formation 9780807744499". Teachers College Press. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  12. ^ "New Faculty Bio: Vanessa Siddell Walker". aas.emory.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  13. ^ "2000 – Vanessa Siddle Walker". Grawemeyer Awards. July 21, 2000. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  14. ^ "Vanessa Siddle Walker Voted AERA President-Elect; Key Members Elected to AERA Council". www.aera.net. March 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  15. ^ "Vanessa Siddle Walker - National Academy of Education". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  16. ^ "Emory professor Vanessa Siddle Walker voted American Educational Research Association president-elect". news.emory.edu. 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  17. ^ "Organizational Structure and Governance". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
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Preceded by President of the American Educational Research Association
2019–2020
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