Erika M. Kitzmiller

Erika M. Kitzmiller is a historian of race, inequality, and education whose scholarship examines the historical process and current reform efforts that have contributed to inequality today.  She is a Term Assistant Professor in Education at Barnard College, Columbia University and a research affiliate with the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her first book manuscript, The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia and Germantown High School, 1907 - 2014 will be published this December with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Erika’s scholarship has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Dissent, the Hechinger Report, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Reuters.  She has received funding for her work from the Harvard University, the National Academy of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and others. 

Erika completed her a Ph.D. in History, a Ph.D. in Education, Culture, and Society, and a Master's in Public Administration at the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s degree in History and Italian from Wellesley College.  She lives in Morningside Heights with her husband and their two young children.