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Erika Bullock
Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Mathematics Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education/Degree:
1 Teaching and Learning- Mathematics Education Teaching and Learning- Mathematics Education (Georgia State University)
About
Erika C. Bullock is Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Her work spans curriculum studies and mathematics and STEM education, using theories from cultural studies, science and technology studies, and other disciplines to historicize issues and ideologies within mathematics and STEM education and to examine how power operates within these disciplines to create/maintain racial inequities. She was a 2017 NAEd/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellow. She was also awarded the 2017 Taylor and Francis Publication Best Paper Award and the 2021 Early Career Publication Award for the Research in Mathematics Education SIG. She currently serves as secretary of Division B (Currriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association.
Current Work
Dr. Bullock's scholarship addresses the paradox that, after nearly 4 decades of explicit focus on equity in mathematics education, progress in this area with respect to Black children has been negligible, at best. She argues that part of the issue is the way that society thinks about Black people, their humanity, and their intellectual capacity. She uses historical research to trace how the logic that drove chattel slavery and Jim Crow policies are also present in educational equity policy in mathematics and STEM education. Dr. Bullock also studies how this thinking shapes political arguments for STEM education for Black children.
Research Area Keyword(s)
mathematics education, STEM education, race, policy, curriculum studies