Beth A. Ferri

Beth A. Ferri, PhD, is a professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at Syracuse University, where she also coordinates the doctoral program in special education. Professor Ferri has published widely on the intersection of race, gender, and disability, including more than 30 journal articles in Teachers College Record, Race Ethnicity & Education, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Remedial & Special Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Gender & Education, Disability Studies Quarterly, Disability & Society, the Journal of African American History, and more. Her first book, coauthored with David J. Connor, titled Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates, was published in 2006. The second, a coedited book with Arlene Kanter, titled Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies in Law & Education, was published in 2013. She has also coedited a recent issue of Disability Studies Quarterly (with David J. Connor) and a special double issue of Learning Disability Quarterly (with David J. Connor & Deborah Gallagher). She was recognized in 2003 as an Outstanding Young Scholar in Disability Studies in Education.