Keffrelyn D. Brown

Keffrelyn D. Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education and African and African Diaspora Studies (by courtesy) at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a former classroom teacher, school administrator and curriculum developer whose research concerns sociocultural knowledge, race, curriculum and teaching. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.S. in Political Science and Psychology from University of Houston.

Keffrelyn has published over 40 books, journal articles, book chapters and other educational texts. Her book, Black Intellectual Thought in Education (with Carl A. Grant and Anthony L. Brown) was awarded the 2016 Outstanding Book Award by the American Educational Research Association Division B. She serves on the editorial boards for several well-recognized peer-reviewed journals including Teachers College Record, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Teaching and Teacher Education and Urban Education. Keffrelyn has received recognition for both her research and teaching. In 2013 she was awarded the Kappa Delta Pi/Division K Early Career Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is also the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Wisconsin-Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant. In 2012 she received the Regent's Outstanding Teaching award, the highest teaching honor given for excellence in undergraduate teaching across the University of Texas system.

Keffrelyn is active in the multiple roles she has as a researcher, scholar and teacher educator at the local, state and national levels. Keffrelyn is keen to the everyday challenges of schooling. She continually seeks to produce scholarship that is theoretically robust, empirically rich and both responsive and relevant to practice in teaching, curriculum and teacher education.