Thomas Pedroni

Thomas C. Pedroni is an associate professor of Curriculum Studies and Policy Sociology at Wayne State University, where he also directs the Detroit Data and Democracy Project. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a teaching certificate in secondary social studies from Tulane University, and a B.A. in philosophy with an emphasis in critical social theory from Miami University.

Pedroni’s research examines race, political economy, urban education, educational inequality, and education policy in Detroit. He is the author of Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform, which received the American Educational Studies Association’s 2009 Critics’ Choice Book Award, and Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools. His scholarship has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Teachers College Record and The Urban Review.