Mary E. Earick

Dr. Earick’s scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on activist pedagogies and critical studies of Whiteness to support culturally sustaining learners, leaders and activists. She is Dean of the School of Education at New Mexico Highlands University. Dr. Earick is the author of Racially Equitable Teaching: Beyond the Whiteness of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators. She holds degrees in Early Childhood Education, Urban Elementary Education and a Ph.D. in Language Literacy and Socio-Cultural Studies. She has written, received, and managed over $38 million in grant funding. Her most recent research has been funded by the Biden Harris administration's Connecting Communities program, ALGE which will act as a national model in decentralizing Whiteness and decolonizing K-12 history studies with a focus on acequia and land grant education. Prior to becoming a professor, she was public-school teacher for 16 years where her teaching was featured in the documentary and book, Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in the Early Years, produced by Teaching for Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Center for the Education and Equity of African American Students (CEEAAS) at the University of South Carolina and the Center for Educational Equity and International Research (CEEIR) at the University of LaVern in California. Dr. Earick has presented her work internationally in Hong Kong, Ireland, Mexico and Canada.