Derrick P. Alridge
Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and Director, CRPES
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1997
- M.Ed., Winthrop University, 1992
- B.A., Winthrop College, 1987
Derrick P. Alridge, a former middle and high school social studies and history teacher, serves as the Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. An educational and intellectual historian, Alridge’s scholarship examines education in the U.S. with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement. His books include The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History; The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (with Neil Bynum and James B. Stewart); and Message in the Music: Hip-Hop, History, and Pedagogy (with V.P. Franklin and James B. Stewart). Alridge has three new books under contract and forthcoming in 2023. Alridge has published in numerous journals, which include the History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and The Journal of Negro Education. He currently serves as an associate editor for The Journal of African American History.
In 2021, Alridge was a recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In 2021 and 2022, Education Week listed him among the top 200 most influential scholars in education. In 2020, he was the Tisch Visiting Scholar at Teachers College and delivered the Tisch Lecture. Alridge is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, former postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, and he serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He is a former president of the History of Education Society. From 2019 and 2020, he served as a co-chair of the Virginia’s Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth. Alridge is the founding director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South and principal investigator of the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project.
Op-Eds and Commentaries
The Washington Post | June 19, 2019 | The Hidden Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Black Perspectives | June 14, 2019 | On Education and African American Intellectual History
Education Post | February 1, 2019 | We Cannot Go Another Month Without Teachers Knowing Black History
2020 TISCH Annual Lecture
Resources
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- Faculty Kudos
- Oral History Project Finding ‘Unique Vantage Point’ of Civil Rights Era Teachers
- Curry Professors Help Young African Leaders Explore Innovative Civic Leadership
- Class of 2014: Three Years After Her Son Graduated from Curry, It is Carmen Foster's Turn
- Derrick Alridge Awarded Jefferson Trust Grant for Teachers in the Movement Project
- Q&A: Exploring the Intersection of Race, Education and the American South
- Professor Derrick P. Alridge: Charlottesville Was Latest Battlefield in the Long Struggle for Equality
- Alridge and Nimax Honored as Leaders, Community-Builders in Equity Efforts
- University of Virginia School of Education & Human Development Receives $1M from Bank of America to Launch Initiative that Focuses on Promoting Inclusion
- Video: Re-envisioning Race and Education in the New South
- PrezFest 2019: Educating for Democracy and Social Justice
- UVA and Charlottesville City Schools Partner to Host Virtual Freedom School
- ‘Teachers in the Movement’ Goes Virtual, Links Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
- Ten UVA Scholars Ranked in 2021 EDU-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
- UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How to Appropriately Teach Current Events
- Black History Month: Resources and Expert Voices
- Professor Alridge Awarded Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion
- UVA Professors Climb in Rankings of Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars
- More Than Words: Oral Storytelling Project Brings Black History to Life
- Teachers in the Movement, Leaders in the Making
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- Teachers delve into Civil Rights Movement at week-long institute
- Panel Honors 400 Years of Perseverance After Arrival of First Africans
- Atkins Among Three Areas Residents Appointed to Governor's African-American History Commission
- Op-Ed: We Cannot Go Another Month Without Teachers Knowing Black History
- Op-Ed: Super Bowl LIII and the Soul of Atlanta
- Op-Ed: On Education and African American Intellectual History
- The hidden heroes of the civil rights movement
- Commission to tackle African-American history education
- Black history education group holds first meeting at UVa
- Freedom School gave area students a voice on issues this summer
- Black history education in Virginia is lacking, state commission says
- Black History Instruction Gets New Emphasis in Many States
- Plantation tours bypass the ‘big house’ to focus on the enslaved
- UVA creates 'toolkit' to help teachers discuss racial injustice in the classroom
- Educating for Democracy