• Associate Professor, African and African American Studies
• Associate Professor, Education

Garrett Duncan

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• Ph.D. in Education at The Claremont Graduate School
• B.S. in Biology at California State Polytechnic University

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Redefining the achievement gap Highlighting test scores deflects from the real problems confronting students in American schools, educator says March 3, 2004 -- Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL Photo Recent Washington University graduate Glenn K. Davis reads to children at Ford Elementary School in St. Louis. As President Bush's struggling No Child Left Behind Act heats up as a presidential campaign issue, the achievement gap in American schools continues to widen. Can we ever hope to close the racial, ethnic and economic gaps in schools? An education researcher at Washington University in St. Louis thinks it is possible — we just need to think of the achievement gap in different terms.

St. Louis and beyond Inequalities in schools and neighborhoods focus of daylong conference Feb. 27 Feb. 18, 2004 -- Social inequalities in schools and neighborhoods will be addressed by leading national scholars as well as prominent local scholars, experts and activists during a daylong conference Feb. 27 at Washington University. WUSTL's Program in Social Thought & Analysis (STA) in Arts & Sciences is sponsoring the conference, titled "Inequalities in Schools & Neighborhoods: St. Louis and Beyond."

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How to keep those kids in class? Pay them. Christian Science Monitor July 29, 2005 -- Article on the growing use of incentive programs to boost test scores, GPAs, and student attendance in high schools. WUSTL education professor Garrett Duncan comments.

Pimp costumes, popular for Halloween, remain controversial Biloxi Sun Herald (MS), St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 15 others Oct. 29, 2004 -- As the nation's Halloween revelers head into this weekend of festivities, they can expect to see lots of pimps, or at least people pretending to be pimps. WUSTL education professor Garrett Duncan suggests the fascination with pimps among whites is a continuation of a history of appropriating various aspects of African-American culture by the larger society.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Postdoctoral Studies, 1996-1997

African and Afro-American Studies and Education

Washington University in St. Louis

Focus: Sociocultural Studies of Adolescence

Doctor of Philosophy in Education, 1990-1994

The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

Dissertation: The Light Before the Dawn: Toward a Critically Grounded Theory of Black Consciousness, Adolescent Development, and Schooling

Professional Clear Single Subject Credential in Life Science, 1987-1989

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

Bachelor of Science in Biology, 1979-1984

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

ACADEMIC & TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, 1997 - present

Education & African and Afro-American Studies

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 63130-4899

Classroom Teacher, 2000-2001

Metro Academic and Classical High School, St. Louis Public Schools

Course Taught: Ethics

Adjunct Associate Professor (Summer Session), 1991 - 2000

Office of Teacher Education, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont

Part-time Professor, 1996

Department of Education, Chapman University, Orange, CA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Duncan, G. (accepted). Beyond love: A critical race analysis of a caring urban high school. Excellence and Equity in Education.

Duncan, G. (2002). Critical race theory and method: Rendering race in ethnographic research. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(1), 83-102.

Duncan, G. (2000). Urban pedagogies and the celling of adolescents of color. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order, 27(3), 29-42.

Duncan, G. (2000). Race and human rights violations in the United States: Considerations for human rights and moral educators. Journal of Moral Education, 29(2), 183-201.

Duncan, G. (2000). Theorizing race, gender, and violence in urban ethnographic research. Urban Education, 34(5), 623-644.

Duncan, G. (1996). Space, place, and the problematic of race: Black adolescent discourse as mediated action. Journal of Negro Education, 65(2), 133-150.

Duncan, G. (1993). Racism as a developmental mediator. The Educational Forum, 57(4), 360-370.

Book Chapters

Duncan, G. (under contract). The play of voices: Morality and the experience of black adolescents in the United States. In V. Siddle Walker and J. Snarey (Eds.), Racing moral formation: African American voices on care, justice, and moral education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Duncan, G. (under contract). Race and change in education: Toward a semiotics of curriculum. M. C. Brown and R. Land (Eds.), The politics of curricular change: Race, hegemony, and power in education. New York: Peter Lang.

Duncan, G. (2000). Violence, black masculinities, and a mother's love: Notes on (in)formal urban pedagogies. In M. C. Brown II & J. Davis (Eds.), Black sons to mothers: Compliments, critiques, and challenges for cultural workers in education. (pp. 70-91). New York: Peter Lang.

Duncan, G. (1999). Educating adolescent black males: Connecting self-esteem to human dignity. In L. Davis (Ed.), Working with African American males: A guide to practice (pp. 173-186). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Duncan, G. (1995). The zone of black bodies: Language, black consciousness, and adolescent identities. In A. Darder (Ed.), Culture & difference: Critical perspectives on the bicultural experience in the United States (pp. 81-101). New York: Greenwood Publishers.

Book Reviews

Duncan, G. (2000). Book review of Code of the street by Elijah Anderson. Journal of Moral Education, 29(1), 110-113.

Duncan, G. (1997). Book review of Crossing the over color line by Amy Stuart Mills and Robert L. Crain. Journal of Negro Education,66(3), 345-348.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & HONORS

CSAS Faculty Recognition Award

Council of Students of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, 1998-2000

Faculty Member of the Year

Association of Black Students, Washington University, 1998-1999

Outstanding Faculty Member

Women's Panhellenic Association, Washington University, 1998

Teacher of the Year

Student Body, Pomona High School, 1992