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Christine E. Sleeter, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982) is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Formerly a high school learning disabilities teacher in Seattle, she previously served as a faculty member at Ripon College in Wisconsin and at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She has been a visiting professor or lecturer at several universities, including the University of Maine, the University of Colorado Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University in New Zealand, San Francisco State University, the University of Washington Seattle, and Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. She is past President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, past Vice President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association, and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Dr. Sleeter's research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education and teacher education. She has published over 140 articles in edited books and journals such as Educational Researcher, Multicultural Education Review, Urban Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Her recent non-fiction books include Diversifying the Teacher Workforce (Routledge, 2014, with L. I. Neal and K. K. Kumashiro) and Power, Teaching and Teacher Education (Peter Lang, 2013). Her first novel, White Bread, was published in 2015 by SensePublishers. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Korean, French, and Portuguese. She has been invited to speak in most U.S. states as well as several countries. Recent awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, the American Educational Research Association Division K Legacy Award, the Charles DeGarmo Lecturer Award from the Society of Professors of Education, and the Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis and Clark College.

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