About the Speaker

Peter C. Murrell, Jr. is the founding dean of the School of Education at Loyola College in Maryland.  Prior to that, he served as professor of urban education at Northeastern University in Boston, director of its Center for Innovation in Urban Education, and was a 2006 co-recipient of the University Aspiration Award for extraordinary contributions in social justice and diversity in education.  Murrell's research focuses upon the development academic identity and racial identity as a joint process of learner achievement and teacher effectiveness. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on a number of areas of urban education.  He is the author of several books, including The Community Teacher: A New Framework for Effective Urban Teaching (Teachers College Press), African Centered Pedagogy: Developing Schools of Achievement for African American Children (SUNY Press) and Like Stone Soup: The Role of the Professional Development School in the Renewal of Urban Schools (AACTE Press).  His most recent book addresses this dynamic of identity, learning and teaching: Race, Culture and Schooling: Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools published by Lawrence Erlbaum.