Alfredo Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Education and Special Education from the University of Virginia (1992), an M.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Virginia (1989), and a Licenciatura in Educational and Clinical Psychology from Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala (1986). Artiles began his career as a special education teacher and administrator in Guatemala in the 1980s. He served as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1992–2000), Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University (2001–2004), and Professor at Arizona State University (2004–2020), where he was Ryan C. Harris Professor of Special Education (2012–2020), Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (2013–2016), and Dean of the Graduate College (2016–2020). Since joining Stanford in 2020, he has held positions including Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (2020–2024) and Director of Research at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (2021–present).

Artiles's scholarship investigates the dual nature of disability as an object of protection and a tool of stratification, focusing on racial, linguistic, and cultural disparities in special education, discipline, and inclusive practices. His current projects examine sociocultural influences on equity reforms, disability-race intersections in school practices, inclusive education equity in Global South contexts, and participatory models grounded in arts and humanities for youth of color. He has led national and regional technical assistance initiatives addressing these equity paradoxes. Key publications include the edited volumes Inclusive Education: Examining Equity on Five Continents (2011, Harvard Education Press), The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education (2019, Sage), and Language, Learning and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children (2021, Multilingual Matters), as well as the award-winning article "Objects of Protection, Enduring Nodes of Difference: Disability Intersections with 'Other' Differences, 1916–2016" (2016, Review of Research in Education). Artiles has received numerous honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023), President-elect of the National Academy of Education (2025–2029), AERA Fellow, honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg (2019), AERA Review of Research Award (2017), Palmer O. Johnson Award (2012), and Spencer Mentor Award (2019). He served on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (2011–2017) and National Academies consensus panels on English learners and the future of education research.

Professional Email: aartiles@stanford.edu