Alfredo J. Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. His scholarship examines the dual nature of disability as an object of protection and a tool of stratification. He aims to understand how responses to disability intersections with race, social class, gender and language advance or hinder educational opportunities for disparate groups of students.

Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) and Director of the Research Institute at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. Dr. Artiles is the editor of the book series Disability, Culture, & Equity published (Teachers College Press). He has served on three consensus panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and was a Commissioner on the Obama White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Artiles has received mentoring awards from The Spencer Foundation, AERA, and Arizona State University. Dr. Artiles is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and Fellow of AERA and the Learning Policy Institute.

Email Alfredo Artiles at: aartiles@stanford.edu