Alfredo J. Artiles

Stanford University

Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. His scholarship examines the paradoxes of educational equity. He studies how protections provided by special education can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups and is advancing solutions to this problem. Current work traces equity consequences of the shifting meanings of “disability” and “inclusive education” across contexts and scales and develops opportunity structures in such milieus. Artiles is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of AERA, a Senior Research Fellow of the Learning Policy Institute, and a National Education Policy Center Fellow. He was a resident fellow at CASBS and a Spencer Foundation/NAEd Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Artiles served on the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. He was elected AERA Vice-President to lead its Social Context of Education Division and received mentoring awards from the Spencer Foundation, AERA, and Arizona State University. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and was an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). Artiles’ Wallace Lecture “Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Educational Equity and Difference: The Case of the Racialization of Ability” received AERA’s Palmer O. Johnson Award. His paper “Objects of protection, enduring nodes of difference: Disability intersections with “other” differences, 1916 – 2016” (with Dorn & Bal) won the AERA Review of Research Award. He edits the “Disability, Culture, & Equity” book series (Teachers College Press). He and his colleagues led the federally funded National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems and Region IX Equity Assistance Center.