James D. Anderson

James D. Anderson is dean of the College of Education and the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education. His scholarship focuses broadly on the history of US education, with specializations in the history of African American education in the South, the history of higher education desegregation, the history of public school desegregation, and the history of African American school achievement in the 20th century. Anderson's book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association outstanding book award in 1990.