Professor of Education and University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan
About
Dr. Camille Wilson is a professor of educational foundations, leadership & policy in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature. She explores school-family-community engagement and transformative leadership as they relate to urban education reform and policy. She is a qualitative researcher who draws upon critical race and feminist methodologies. She has worked individually and collaboratively to conduct research anchored in epistemological traditions that value how research participants make meaning, form identities, enact agency, and are helped or hindered as they interact with educational systems.
She is well known for her research related to African American mothers’ educational advocacy and their interaction with school choice policies. (She published as Camille Wilson Cooper prior to 2011). Her current research explores the educational activism of adult and youth community organizers in Detroit, MI. She and her CREATE (Community-based Research on Equity, Activism, and Transformative Education) research team are working to identify how democratic, equity-oriented, and community driven approaches to public educational improvement can be increased and sustained.
Current Work:
Dr. Camille M. Wilson explores how youth and families get involved in their schools and communities to improve public education. She also considers the roles educators, civic officials, and policy makers can play in improving educational quality and access for those who most often lack fair educational opportunities.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Urban education, school-family-community engagement
