Camille M. Wilson
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Location
Room 4113
610 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1259
Camille M. Wilson, Ph.D., is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at the University of Michigan. She explores the intersections of school-family-community engagement, educational improvement, and transformative leadership. Within this work, she highlights the educational advocacy, activism, and choices of marginalized families and communities of color. She also studies the practices of equity-driven school-based leaders. Dr. Wilson considers all of these issues from critical, gendered, and racial justice perspectives. She and her research team are currently studying how a Michigan community engaged, negotiated, adapted to, or resisted state policies to shutter their local schools. The team is also documenting how this community is now seeking to revitalize and protect their school system.
In addition to publishing her scholarship extensively in national and international venues, her work and commentary has been featured in prominent media outlets like the New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar. Actively collaborating with youth, family, and community activists in national and regional educational improvement initiatives is also a vital aspect of her work.
In 2020, Dr. Wilson founded the Community-Based Research on Equity, Activism, and Transformative Education (CREATE) Center at the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education. The CREATE Center supports and networks equity-driven scholars and education advocates and activists who are committed to conducting and/or leveraging research that helps catalyze transformative public education in racially just ways. Dr. Wilson earned her doctorate in urban schooling in 2001 from UCLA.
Courses
| Number | Course Name | Location | Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDUC 732 | Critical Race Methodologies
This advanced research course introduces the principles and strategies of critical race methodologies in qualitative inquiry. The interrelated nature of race, intersecting identities, knowledge, power, voice, and representation in research is stressed. Critical race theory, along with complementary critical social theories that inform critical race methodologies, are considered. |
Selected Publications
"Advancing equity and achievement in America’s diverse schools: Inclusive theories, policies, and practices."
Wilson, Camille M. & Horsford, S.D. (Eds.) (2014). New York: Routledge.
“Theme: Reclaiming Education and the At-Risk City: Insights from Detroit.”
Pedroni, T. C. and Wilson, Camille M. (Forthcoming 2014). Guest editors for a special issue of Educational Policy Analysis Archives.
"Starting the bandwagon: A historiography of African American mothers’ leadership during school desegregation, 1954-1971."
Wilson, Camille M. (in press, 2014). Advancing Women in Leadership, 34, (34-47).
"Recasting border crossing politics and pedagogies to combat educational inequity: Experiences, identities, and perceptions of Latino/a immigrant youth."
Wilson, Camille M., Ek, L.D., & Douglas, T.M.O. (2014). The Urban Review 46(1),1-24. (DOI) 10.1007/s11256-013-0246-5. (Online version first printed 2013).
"Starting with African American success: A strengths-based approach to transformative educational leadership."
Wilson, Camille M., Douglas, T.M.O., & Nganga, C. (2013). In L.C. Tillman & J.J. Scheurich (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational leadership for equity and diversity (pp. 111-133). New York: Routledge.
"Advocacy-based partnerships, special education, & African American families: Resisting the politics of containment." In S. Auerbach (Ed.)
Ruffin-Adams, A., and Wilson, Camille M. (2011). School leadership for authentic family and community partnerships: Research perspectives for transforming practice (pp. 78-97). New York: Routledge.
"Leading and learning with diverse families in schools: Critical epistemology amid communities of practice."
Cooper, Camille Wilson, Riehl, C.J., & Hasan, L. (2010). Journal of School Leadership, 20(6), 760-790.
"Performing cultural work in demographically changing schools: Implications for expanding transformative leadership frameworks."
Cooper, Camille Wilson (2009). Educational Administration Quarterly, 45(5), 694-724.
"Parent involvement, African American mothers, and the politics of educational care."
Cooper, Camille Wilson (2009). Equity and Excellence in Education, 42(4), 379-394.
"School choice as 'motherwork': Valuing African American women’s educational advocacy and resistance."
Cooper, Camille Wilson (2007). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 20(5), 491-512.
"Evaluating parent empowerment: A look at the potential of social justice evaluation in education."
Cooper, Camille Wilson & Christie, C.A. (2005). Teachers College Record, 107(10), 2248-2271.
"School choice and the standpoint of African American mothers: Considering the power of positionality."
Cooper, Camille Wilson (2005). Journal of Negro Education, 74(2), 174-189.
