Derrick P. Alridge
- Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education
Phone
Office Location
Bavaro Hall 319
PO Box 400265
417 Emmet Street S
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Profile Type
Biography
Derrick P. Alridge, a native of South Carolina, is a former middle and high school social studies and history teacher. His research interests include the history of education in the United States, American educational thought, and the civil rights movement and education. His scholarship has been published in the History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and The Journal of Negro Education. As director of the nationally recognized Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project, Alridge and his team are exploring the lives and pedagogy of teachers during the American Civil Rights Movement era. The project team has conducted 500 interviews and seeks to interview many more teachers who taught between 1950 and 1980. If you know someone that you believe should be interviewed, please let us know: [email protected]. Interviews are taking place in person and via Zoom.
Education
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1997
M.Ed., Winthrop University, 1992
B.A., Winthrop College, 1987
Research
- Education in the U.S. with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement