Roslyn Mickelson

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Women and Gender Studies, and Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She taught high school social studies in southern California for nine years prior to enrolling in her doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. After she received her Ph.D. Mickelson spent a postdoctoral fellowship year at the University of Michigan’s Bush Program in Child Development and Social Policy. Mickelson is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the National Educational Policy Center.

Mickelson’s research focuses upon the political economy of schooling and school reform, particularly the relationships among race, ethnicity, gender, class, and educational organization, processes, and outcomes. Since the late 1990s she has investigated school desegregation and resegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina and more recently, across the nation. She developed a searchable database, the Diversity in Education Archive, which holds almost 600 detailed summaries of empirical research about the relationship between school racial and socioeconomic composition and school outcomes. Harvard Education Press will publish her forthcoming coedited book, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte in early 2015. Additionally, with support from the National Science Foundation, Mickelson and her colleagues are investigating the social structural, individual, and, K-16 educational factors that contribute to successfully majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina system.