Dr. Shanyce L. Campbell is an Associate Professor where she primarily teaches quantitative methods and mixed methods. Dr. Campbell’s research focuses on understanding and disrupting how policies influence access to rich learning experiences for students of color. Dr. Campbell’s research focuses on understanding how policies and practices influence access to rich and engaging learning opportunities for students of color. Specifically, she focuses on teachers and their educational, just curriculum, and critical quantitative methods as a liberatory tool.
Dr. Campbell’s scholarly contributions are showcased in several journals, including American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher and Race, Ethnicity, and Education. She has been recognized for her contributions with awards such as the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award from AERA. She is a co-founder of the Quant4What Collective, which encourages early-career scholars to (un)learn, heal, and dream to (re)imagine the use of quantitative research for transformation.
Dr. Campbell earned her Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Accounting with a Minor in Economics from North Carolina A&T State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She earned her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Campbell further honed her expertise as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s School of Education.
Additionally, she is a budding gardenista and plant mom who is learning what it means to do liberatory work from plants.
- Quantitative Methods II
- Mixed Methods
Equitable Opportunities to Learn for Students of Color
Educational Inequity
Critical Quantitative Methods
Mixed Methods Research Methods
Program Evaluation
Campbell, S.L. (2022). Shifting Teacher Evaluation Systems to Community Answerability Systems: (Re)Imagining How We Assess Black Women Teachers. The Educational Forum, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2022.1997523
Campbell, S. L. (2020). Ratings in Black and White: A Quantcrit Examination of Race and Gender in Teacher Evaluation Reform. Race Ethnicity and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842345
Sandoval, C., van Es, E., Campbell, S.L., & Santagata, R. (2020). Creating Coherence in Teacher Preparation: Examining Teacher Candidates’ Conceptualizations and Practices for Equity. Teacher Education Quarterly.
Campbell, S. L. (2019). Capitalizing on achievement: A critical examination of school-based mentoring programs and student achievement. In Carrillo, J.F., Parker, D., Conder, T. (Eds). Mentoring Students of Color: Naming the Politics of Race, Social Class, Gender, and Power. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Sense Publishers.
Campbell, S.L. (2018). Forgive Them Father: Understanding Acts of Violence Towards Black Women in Higher Education. In Sankofa Waters, M., Evans-Winters, V. E., & Love, B. L. (Eds.). Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang U.S.
Campbell, S. L., & Ronfeldt, M. (2018). Observational Evaluation of Teachers: Measuring More Than We Bargained for? American Educational Research Journal, 55(6), 1233–1267.
Principal Investigator. “A Mixed Methods Study of Teacher Education Programs’ Role in Fostering Candidates’ Equity Dispositions.” National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship ($70,000)
Principal Investigator. “Teacher Education Programs’ Role in Fostering Candidates’ Equity Dispositions.” California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network (CTERIN) ($25,000)
Co-Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NICHD R01). “Education and Transition to Adulthood” (PI: Andrew Penner). ($3,220,000)
Awards and Honors:
- Deans Award for Research – 2023
- Deans Scholar for Critical Quantitative Methods and Educational Justice – 2023
- AERA Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for the most outstanding article appearing in an American Educational Research Association-sponsored journal (2009)
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2020)
- Board of Directors – Treasurer, Blackgirl Gold Unapologetic, Incorporated
- Co-Organizer, Quant4What Collective (2023-present)
- Co-Chair, Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG, AERA (2022-2024)
- Special Issue Editor for Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
- Special Issue Editor for Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
