Edgar G. Epps, Ph.D.

Edgar G. Epps, Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education Emeritus at the University of Chicago, is a Senior Research Associate at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, and Professor of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has also held faculty positions at Tuskegee University, the University of Michigan, Florida A&M University, and Tennessee State University. He was educated at Talladega College (Alabama), Atlanta University, and Washington State University, where he earned the Ph.D. degree in Sociology.

His recent publications include: "Affirmative Action and Minority Access to Faculty Positions," Ohio State Law Journal, 1998, 58(3): 755-774; "The Black Academic: Faculty Status Among African Americans in U.S. Higher Education" (with W. Allen, et al.), Journal of Negro Education, 2000, 69(1/2), 112-127; and "Outsiders Within: Race, Gender, and Faculty Status in U.S. Higher Education" (with W. Allen, et al.), in W. Smith, P. Altbach, & K. Lomotey (eds.), The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, revised edition, SUNY Press 2002. African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement - A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps (co-edited by W. Allen, M. Spencer, and C. O'Connor), will be published by Elsevier Science Press in 2002.

His current research interests include race/ethnic relations, minority access to higher education, faculty diversity in higher education, and educational reform in urban school districts. Dr. Epps has served as a member of the Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools, and as member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Education Foundation. Among other honors, he has received a Mentor Award from the Spencer Foundation, and the DuBois, Johnson, Frazier Award of the American Sociological Association.