derria byrd // College of Education // Marquette University

Assistant Professor

Educational Policy and Leadership

Degrees Held

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Policy Studies

M.P.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Education Policy

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Policy Studies

B.A., Brown University, American Studies | English & American Literature

Courses Taught

Social Justice Advocacy in Student Affairs

Sociological Foundations of Education

Interpretive and Critical Research in Education I

Educational Inquiry II

Educational Studies: Community-Engaged Internship I & II

Research Interests

Higher Education

Race, Social Class, and Educational (In)equity

Organizational Culture and Change

First-Generation Faculty

Critical Theory

Social Justice Advocacy Development

Recent Publications

byrd, d. (forthcoming) Using institutional habitus to position colleges and universities as social actors (Educational Theory)

byrd, d. & Siddiqui, N. S. (2024). A critical examination of first-generation faculty scholarship: Demonstrating the need for intersectional, empirical analysis. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000560

byrd, d. (2022). How diversity fails: An empirical investigation of organizational status and policy implementation on three public campuses. Education Sciences, 12(3), 211 https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030211

byrd, d. (2019). Uncovering hegemony in higher education: A critical appraisal of the use of institutional habitus in empirical scholarship. Review of Educational Research, 89(2), 171-210. Doi: 10.3102/0034654318812915 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45277271

byrd, d. (2019). The diversity distraction: A critical comparative analysis of discourse in higher education research. Review of Higher Education, (42), 135-172. Doi: 10.1353/rhe.2019.0048

Additional Information

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