Rate My Professor Christine Clark

Christine Clark, Ed.D., is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction/Teaching and Learning and Senior Scholar for Multicultural Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned a B.A. in economics with a minor in geology from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.Ed. with specializations in cross-cultural counseling and multicultural curriculum development, and an Ed.D. with specializations in multicultural/bilingual education, multicultural organizational/community development, and urban educational leadership, all from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her career history includes serving as Founding Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, Director of the Center for Multicultural Education, and co-coordinator of the Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education (CSIEME) programs at UNLV. Previously, she was Executive Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, College Park; Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Urban Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of Cincinnati; and Assistant Professor of Multicultural Teacher Education/Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University. Clark was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1998-1999 at La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and in 2005-2006 at La Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala, conducting research on violence in schools.

Clark maintains a three-tiered research agenda focused on white antiracist identity development and multicultural teacher education preparation; the prison industrial complex and implications for urban educational leadership; and multicultural curriculum transformation in P-12 and higher education. Her specialty is the development of critical multicultural, bilingual education as a tool for disarming violence in schools and communities. She serves as series editor for the six-volume PK-12 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Handbook Series (2017-2027), lead co-editor of Occupying the Academy: Just How Important is Diversity Work in Higher Education? (2012, Rowman & Littlefield), invited chapter co-author in Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (2015, Routledge), and author of entries in Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia (2013, Sage) and Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education (2012, Sage). In 2014, she received the G. Pritchy Smith National Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), on whose Board of Directors she served (1997-2002) and Editorial Board of Multicultural Perspectives (since 1998). Clark is Associate Editor for the Higher Education section of Multicultural Education (since 2002) and has served on editorial boards for Equity & Excellence in Education (2014-2017), Journal of Diversity Management (2006-2007), and Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education (2005-2009). Within the American Educational Research Association, she was Program Chair/Co-Chair for the Foucault and Education SIG and Communications Chair/Co-Chair for the Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG (2005-2010), and served on the National Advisory Committee of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (2010, 2013).