Participant Info
- First Name
- Ansley
- Last Name
- Erickson
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- erickson@tc.columbia.edu
- Affiliation
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- Website URL
- www.tc.edu/faculty/ate11
- Keywords
- 20th Century United States, Education, Urban, African American
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I study the history of schools in U.S. cities in the 20th century. I am interested in the roots and consequences of inequality and racism in education and the ways that communities have resisted these with their own educational visions.
- Recent Publications
My first book is about the history of school desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee, a city with unusual success at statistical desegregation via busing but one in which educational inequality was remade via efforts to meliorate white resistance and feed economic growth.
I am now working on a project on the history of education in Harlem, including a collaborative digital history effort and a narrative history of one Harlem school over the 20th century.
I have also written articles on the impact of city planning practices on making school and housing segregation together. These are available on my web page.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/05/17/as-historians-and-new-york-city-educators-heres-what-we-hope-teachers-hear-in-the-citys-new-anti-bias-training/
- Social Media
- @ATErickson
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Government, Local & Regional, Pedagogy, Public History, Race, Urban History
