Erika M. Kitzmiller

Erika M. Kitzmiller is a historian of race, social inequality, and education who served as an assistant clinical professor at Drexel University and is currently the Caperton Fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. She received her Ph.D. in History and Education and Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Wellesley College.

Education and Opportunity

Over the course of the past century, educational opportunity has expanded for many American youth, but this expansion has also created gross economic, political, and social inequities between youth who have access to first-rate educational institutions and those that do ...