Christine Sleeter '70

Christine E. Sleeter, Ph.D. is professor emerita in the College of Education at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She has served as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Maine, University of Colorado Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. She is past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and past vice president of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education. She has published over 150 articles and 24 books, including Un-Standardizing Curriculum (2nd ed. with J. Flores Carmona, Teachers College Press) and Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools (with M. Zavala, Teachers College Press). She has also published two novels (“White Bread” and “The Inheritance”). She is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award and the National Association for Multicultural Education Exceptional Service Award.