Dr. Marvin Lynn: Professor & Teacher Educator

Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Faculty, I'm a Full Professor!, Scholarly Celebrations

Dr. Marvin Lynn

Dr. Marvin Lynn is an Associate Professor (he has tenure) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He conducts qualitative research on the work, lives and experiences of African American male urban school teachers and the role of urban teacher education programs in developing teachers for racial justice. In addition, he charts and studies the development of the Critical Race Studies in Education movement in the United States and in Europe. He has a forthcoming book entitled What’s Race got to do with it? Critical Race Theory and the New Sociology of Education which is due out in 2008.

He co-founded and organized the first ever Critical Race Theory and Education Conference in the United States. The year prior, he was a keynote speaker at the first ever Critical Race Theory seminar in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in several well-respected academic journals, includingTeachers College Record, Qualitative Studies in Education and Review of Research in Education. He also serves on the editorial boards of several education journals.

Prof. Lynn was previously Associate Professor and Founder/Director of the Minority & Urban Education Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also taught in public and private elementary schools in New York City (Harlem) and Chicago. Dr. Lynn teaches courses on urban education, multicultural education, African American education, critical race theory and education, and methods of elementary teaching in urban schools.

Dr. Lynn

EDUCATION:

2001 – Ph.D., UCLA, Race and Ethnic Studies in Education
1996 – M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University, Urban Education
1993 – B.S., DePaul University, Elementary Education

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

In progress – Lynn, M. What?s race got to do with it? Critical race theory and the new sociology of education. Sense Books.

In Press – Lynn, M. & Jennings, M. E. (In press). Power, politics and critical race pedagogy: a critical race analysis of Black male teachers pedagogy. Race, Ethnicity & Education.

In Press – Berry, T. R., Jay, M., & Lynn, M. (Eds.). (In press). Theorizing race, class, gender & sexuality in critical race studies in education research. The Journal of Educational Foundations.

In Press – Stovall, D. O., Lynn, M., Martin, D. B., & Danley, L. (In press). Critical race praxis in education. Race, Ethnicity & Education.

2010 – Lynn, M., Bacon, J., Totten, T., Bridges, T., & Jennings, M. (In press). Examining Teachers beliefs about black male students in a low-performing high school: the impact on African American males. Teachers College Record, 112(1).

2009 – Lynn, M. & Bridges, T. (2009). Critical race studies in education and the endarkened wisdom of Carter G. Woodson. In Tillman, L. (Ed.) Handbook of African American Education. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishers, pp. 339-350.

2007 – Lynn, M. & Smith-Maddox, R. (2007). Pre-service teacher inquiry: creating a space to dialogue about becoming a social justice educator. Teaching and Teacher Education, 23(1), 94-105.

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