Assistant Professor in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture Department at Texas A&M University
About
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, PhD, is an interdisciplinary historian of education, whose work seeks to bridge past and present perspectives on African American struggles for educational justice. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the teaching, learning, and culture department at Texas A&M University. Dr. James-Gallaway is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and an Illinois Distinguished Fellowship. Additionally, she was designated as a University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Barbara L. Jackson Scholar and a Dean's Centennial Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
Current Work:
Dr. James-Gallaway's research agenda follows four overlapping strands of inquiry: the history of African American education, Black history education, Black women's and girls' education experiences, and critical theories and methodologies. These strands coalesce around the ways white supremacy, antiBlackness, misogynoir, and other interlocking systems of oppression have shaped African American education. A proud Waco Texan, Dr. James-Gallaway is conducting a research project that examines Waco-area school districts’ desegregation implementation process in the 1970s from the perspectives of former Black students who underwent it. She uses historical and oral history methods to understand their quotidian experiences and to clarify how categories of social difference; namely, race, gender, and socioeconomic status; converged to differentiate their experiential knowledge of this process.
Research Area Keyword(s):
history of African American education; Black education history; critical race theory; Black feminist theory
