Derrick Alridge

Derrick P. Alridge, Ph.D., is director of the Center of Race and Education in the South and a professor in the Social Foundations of Education program at the UVA School of Education and Human Development.

His primary areas of scholarship are African American educational and intellectual history and the civil rights movement. He is the author of "The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History," co-editor of "Message in the Music: Hip Hop, History, and Pedagogy" (with James B. Stewart and V.P. Franklin), and co-editor of "The Black Intellectual Tradition in the United States in the Twentieth Century" (in progress with Cornelius Bynum). Alridge’s scholarship has appeared in the "History of Education Quarterly," "The Journal of African American History," "The Journal of Negro Education," "Teachers College Record," "Educational Researcher," and numerous other scholarly journals and volumes. Alridge is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation.