Jennifer Adair

Jennifer Keys Adair, PhD is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. Trained in video-cued, multivocal ethnography, Dr. Adair conducts largescale qualitative students across national and global contexts.  She is a former Young Scholars Fellow with the Foundation for Child Development, a major grant recipient of the Spencer Foundation to study civic action and racial justice, and most recently a multi-year grant recipient from the Brady Foundation to culturally validate and test the Markers of Agency tool, a capacity-building, culturally flexible reflection tool rooted in 10 years of agency research and racial justice in multiple nations, languages and communities. Dr. Adair is the author, along with co-author Dr. Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, of the book, Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism and Early Learning (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) which won the 2021 Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award and the 2021-2022 Book Study Award from the High Scope Educational Research Foundation. Dr. Adair has received many awards for her research and published findings in a wide range of journals including Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Journal of Teacher Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Urban Education and Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. She teaches courses on qualitative research with young children, the impact of socio-political/cultural factors on development and a range of early childhood and research methods courses.She has served on multiple editorial boards for journals and book series, including for Teachers College record (2017-current) and Anthropology and Education Quarterly (2016-2020), and is currently a Co-Editor of AERA Open. She has served on advisory boards for multiple educational, philanthropic organizations, foundations, and research groups. Jennifer works to make her research public by speaking at venues such as SXSW as well as through public media coverage including CBS, NBC, Washington Post, NPR, New America, Code Switch, Huffington Post, EdWeek, and The Conversation.