Alfredo J. Artiles is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His interdisciplinary scholarship aims to understand and address educational opportunities and inequities related to disability intersections with race, language, gender and social class. His work on racial disparities in special education addresses how justice remedies for one group (special education) can create injustices for other groups (racial minoritized groups). Dr. Artiles’ work has implications for conceptualizations of learner competence and raises epistemological questions that disrupt the ways in which colorblind knowledge perpetuates educational inequities.
He directs the Equity Alliance and was elected Vice President of AERA (2009-11). Dr. Artiles is a member of the National Academy of Education, an AERA Fellow, and a former Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow. He served on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (2011-2017) and was a Resident Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2008-09). Dr. Artiles has received numerous awards including a 2017 AERA Presidential Citation, the 2017 AERA Review of Research Award, the 2014 Division G Mentoring Award, and the 2012 Palmer O. Johnson Award.
He edits the Teachers College Press book series “Disability, Culture, & Equity.” Recent publications include (with M. Schuelka, C. Johnstone, & G. Thomas) the SAGE Handbook on Inclusion and Diversity in Education; (with J Allan) the 2017 World Yearbook of Education: Assessment inequalities (Routledge); the 2017 NRC report Fostering the Development and Educational Success of Young Language Learners and Dual Language Learners (committee member); and (with E. Kozleski and F. Waitoller) Inclusive education: Examining equity on five continents (Harvard Education Press).