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 (UNC Charlotte). She has been selected as a member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the AERA and the National Educational Policy Center. Her research examines how organizational features of educational institutions interact with the students' race, ethnicity, gender, and social class to shape educational opportunities, teaching, and learning processes, and with 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 U.S. Supreme Court opinions. She has received the First Citizens Bank Scholar Award and UNC Charlotte’s Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentoring Award. She held a postdoctoral fellowship in public policy at the University of Michigan, and taught public high school in Southern California. Mickelson received her PhD in sociology of education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

updated 2024