Christine E. Sleeter

Christine E. Sleeter, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the College of Education at California State University, Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She earned her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin and previously taught at Ripon College and the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Sleeter has served as president of the National Association for Multicultural Education and vice president of Division K of the American Educational Research Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the National Education Policy Center.

Her work focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, teacher education, and educational equity. She has authored, edited, or co-edited numerous books and more than 170 articles, including Growing Critically Conscious Teachers: A Social Justice Curriculum for Educators of Latino/a Youth, Power, Teaching, and Teacher Education: Confronting Injustice with Critical Research and Action, Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools, and Critical Multicultural Education.