Elizabeth E Blair Editor

Elizabeth E. Blair is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Her research agenda focuses on exploring teaching and learning relationships, identity, and educational equity in elementary through postsecondary contexts, with a special focus on gender, gender identity, and equity. Dr. Blair’s research has appeared in journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Gender and Education, Teachers College Record, the Journal of Engineering Education, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She is the associate editor of the Journal for Multicultural Education. Sherry Deckman is an associate professor of education at Lehman College, the City University of New York (CUNY) and an affiliated faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Urban Education and Social Welfare programs. She is also the current editor of the Journal for Multicultural Education (Emerald Publishing). Dr. Deckman’s current research and teaching focus on how educators are prepared to work with students from diverse race, class, and gender backgrounds, as well as how educators address issues of race, class, and gender inequity in schools. Other recent research has explored how undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds negotiate race, class, and gender while participating in culturally focused performing arts groups, which is the topic of her 2022 book, Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press). Dr. Deckman’s research has appeared in top venues in the field such as Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, the Journal of Teacher Education, and Urban Education.