ROSLYN ARLIN MICKELSON is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Women & Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She taught public high school in Southern California for nine years. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984 and before joining the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1985, Mickelson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in public policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a Member of the National Academy of Education and an elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the National Educational Policy Center.
Mickelson’s work examines how the organizational features of educational institutions interact with the race, ethnicity, gender, and social class of students to shape educational opportunities, teaching and learning processes, and PreK-16 student outcomes. Her previous books include Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Harvard Education Press, 2015) and Children on the Streets of the Americas. Globalization, Homelessness, and Education in the U.S., Brazil, and Cuba (Routledge, 2000).
