Adrienne Dixson

Dr. Adrienne D. Dixson is a critical race theorist, qualitative researcher, educational philosopher, author, scholar, teacher educator, and is an Assistant Professor of Education, Women's Studies, and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. Dixson is among a generation of young scholars committed to Critical Race Theory. Along with Dr. Celia Rousseau, Dixson has published scholarly articles along with a text entitled Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song. Dixson’s work with CRT extends the underpinnings of Critical Race Theory in Education as first proposed by Ladson-Billings and Tate in the mid 90’s. Dixson has published in areas of qualitative research, developing a methodology for research entitled “Jazz Methodology” drawing from and extending Lawrence-Lightfoot’s work on Portraiture. Dixson is actively involved in education, having active involvement in the American Educational Research Association serving a number of capacities including past membership on the Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education and is a member on the International Advisory Committee for the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry.
Dissertation
*Dixson, A. D. (2002). Theorizing Black women’s pedagogy: The pedagogical philosophies and practices of Black women teachers. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Selected articles
* Dixson, A. D. (2005). Extending the metaphor: Notions of jazz in portraiture. Qualitative Inquiry. 11(1), 106-137.
* Dixson, A.D., Rousseau, C.K. (2005). And we are still not saved: Critical race theory in education ten years later. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 8(1), 7-27.
* Dixson, A.D., Chapman, T.K., Hill, D.A. (2005). Research as an aesthetic process: Extending the portraiture methodology. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(1), 16-26.
* DeCuir, J.T., Dixson, A.D. (2004). “So when it comes out, they aren’t that surprised that it is there”: Using critical race theory as a tool of analysis of race and racism in education. Educational Researcher, 33(5), 26-31.
* Dixson, A. D. (2003). “Let’s do this!”: Black women teachers’ politics and pedagogy. Urban Education. 38(2), 217-235.
Books
* Dixson, A. D. & Rousseau, C. (2007) Critical Race Theory in education: All God’s children got a song. New York, NY: Routledge.

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