Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson is the chancellor’s professor and professor of sociology, public policy, and women and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was selected as a member of the National Academy of Education in 2023 and is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Educational Policy Center (NEPC). Dr. Mickelson has received the First Citizens Bank Scholar Award and UNC Charlotte’s Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentoring Award. Her research examines the ways that the organizational features of educational institutions interact with the race, ethnicity, gender, and social class of students to shape educational opportunities, teaching and learning processes, and K–16 student outcomes. She has presented summaries of her research to then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and her findings have been cited in US Supreme Court opinions. Dr. Mickelson holds a PhD in sociology of education along with MAs in sociology and sociology of education, and a BA in anthropology collectively from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship in public policy at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, and taught public high school in Southern California for nine years.

updated 2024