Organization of Educational Historians Annual Meeting
September 30-October 1, 2022
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE and
ONLINE EXPERIENCE!
Conference Theme: Critical Race Theory: Telling the Truth Inclusively in the History of America
All Submissions Due July 1, 2022
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Derrick P. Alridge
Derrick P. Alridge is Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. An educational and intellectual historian, Dr. Alridge’s work examines American education with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (2008) and co-editor, with James B. Stewart and V.P. Franklin, of Message in the Music: Hip-Hop, History, and Pedagogy (2011). Dr. Alridge is currently writing The Hip-Hop Mind: Ideas, History, and Social Consciousness (University of Wisconsin Press) and is co-editor, with Neil Bynum and James B. Stewart, of The Black Intellectual Tradition in the United States in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press). He has published numerous articles in journals, such as History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and The Journal of Negro Education. A former middle and high school social studies teacher and National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, Dr. Alridge serves as an associate editor for The Journal of African American History and is on the editorial board of the African American Intellectual History Society's Black Perspectives.
Dr. Derrick P. Alridge
Derrick P. Alridge is Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. An educational and intellectual historian, Dr. Alridge’s work examines American education with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (2008) and co-editor, with James B. Stewart and V.P. Franklin, of Message in the Music: Hip-Hop, History, and Pedagogy (2011). Dr. Alridge is currently writing The Hip-Hop Mind: Ideas, History, and Social Consciousness (University of Wisconsin Press) and is co-editor, with Neil Bynum and James B. Stewart, of The Black Intellectual Tradition in the United States in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press). He has published numerous articles in journals, such as History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and The Journal of Negro Education. A former middle and high school social studies teacher and National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, Dr. Alridge serves as an associate editor for The Journal of African American History and is on the editorial board of the African American Intellectual History Society's Black Perspectives.
