Title: Associate Professor

Sociology Office: 4146A BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-4663

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Joint Appointments: African-American Studies

Office: 1217 UH

Phone: 312-413-1217

Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations; Urban Schooling; Children and Youth; Qualitative Methods; Gender; Social Inequality; Urban Ethnography

Recent Courses:

• Theory and Research on Whiteness
• Race & Ethnic Relations
• Urban Education
• Race and Urban Life

Web Addresses: http://www.uic.edu/las/afam/faculty/AmandaLewis/about.htm

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Bio: Amanda E. Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and African American Studies and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.   Her research focuses on how race shapes educational opportunities from kindergarten through graduate school and on how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life.  A native of San Francisco, she was educated in San Francisco public schools and received her B.A. in educational studies from Brown University, her M.A. in education for the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan.  Her book on how race shapes everyday life in elementary schools, Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the color-line in classrooms and communities, (Rutgers University Press 2003) was featured on C-Span Book TV, and a number of radio and newspaper outlets.  She had two additional books published recently:  her edited volume (with Maria Krysan), The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity (Russell Sage, 2004), and Challenging Racism in Higher Education: Promoting Justice (with Mark Chesler and Jim Crowfoot – Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2005).  Her research has appeared in a number of academic venues including Sociological Theory, American Educational Research Journal, American Behavioral Scientist, Race and Society, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly.  She is currently at work on a new book (with John Diamond), titled Despite the Best Intentions: Why racial inequality persists in good schools (Oxford, forthcoming).  She lectures and consults regularly on issues of educational equity and contemporary forms of racism.