Alfredo J. Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles

Professor
Assistant: Moraima DiMare
Office: ANKO 342

Biography

Dr. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education. His scholarship examines the dual nature of disability as an object of protection and a tool of stratification. Professor Artiles studies how protections afforded by disability status can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups and is advancing responses to these inequities. For instance, he is studying the cultural-historical contexts of racial and linguistic disparities in special education and discipline, and whether a disability diagnosis is associated with differential consequences for such minoritized groups (e.g., segregation, quality and type of services). He and his colleagues have led national and regional technical assistance initiatives at the state and school district levels to address these equity paradoxes. Current research projects include:

* Examining the role of socio-cultural influences (e.g., histories of racial inequities in communities and schools, ideologies about school achievement) in educators鈥 interpretations and responses to chronic school district citations for racial disparities in special education and discipline.
* Analyzing alternative meanings of 鈥渄isability鈥 and 鈥渋nclusive education鈥 across institutional contexts and their equity consequences for disparate groups of students.
* Documenting how disability-race intersections become visible or invisible across institutional practices (e.g., referrals, assessment, eligibility meetings) at the district and school levels.
* Piloting a participatory model with youth of color with/without disabilities grounded in the arts and humanities to (re)structure school discipline policies and practices.
* Documenting how teachers and other school professionals decide whether dual language learners' academic or behavioral difficulties are related to disabilities.
* Analyzing equity consequences of inclusive education implementation in Global South nations.
* Re-designing policies and practices that leverage Black family partnerships and interrupt precursors to racial disparities affecting Black learners in a district with chronic disproportionality.
* Oral history of Larry P v. Riles: An interdisciplinary analysis of disability-race intersections.

Dr. Artiles received an honorary doctorate from the University of G枚teborgs (Sweden) and was Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). He served on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Prof. Artiles is President-elect of the National Academy of Education. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the National Education Policy Center. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. Dr. Artiles was a resident fellow at 海角乱伦社区's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). He was elected AERA Vice-President to lead its Social Context of Education Division. He has received numerous awards for his scholarly work and mentoring activities, including an AERA Presidential Citation, AERA鈥檚 Palmer O. Johnson Award for the most outstanding article published in an AERA journal, the AERA Review of Research Award, and Mentoring Awards from AERA鈥檚 Division on Social Contexts of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and Arizona State University. He was selected Distinguished Alumni from the University of Virginia School of Education. Professor Artiles has served on consensus study panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine focusing on English learners, the Future of Educational Research at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education, and Opportunity Gaps for Young Children.

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Program affiliations

SHIPS (PhD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): Anthropology of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
SHIPS (PhD): Sociology of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Global and Comparative Education
(MA) GCE/IEPA
(MA) POLS
海角乱伦社区 Accelerator for Learning

Research interests

Educational Policy | Equity in Education | Immigrants and Immigration | Poverty and Inequality | Special Education

Recent publications

Artiles, A. J. (2025). Taming the duality of disability. Critical cultural-historical tools to disrupt equity paradoxes . Revista Espa帽ola De Pedagog铆a, 83.
Ferrell, A., & Artiles, A. J. (2025). Beyond demography: Integrating mind, culture, and equity in learning disabilities research. Handbook of learning disabilities . Guilford.
Artiles, A. J., Cavendish, W., Gamboa-Zapatel, D., & Caballeros, M. Z. (2025). Disrupting the cultural historical geographies of inclusion: Notes for (re)framing policy research on inclusive education. Handbook of education policy research. American Educational Research Association.