Christine E. Sleeter

College of Education at California State University, Monterey Bay

Christine E. Sleeter, PhD., is professor emerita in the College of Education at California State University, Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She has served as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Maine, University of Colorado Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. She is past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and past vice president of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education. She has published over 150 articles and 23 books, including Un-Standardizing Curriculum (2nd ed. with J. Flores Carmona, Teachers College Press) and Rethinking Ethnic Studies (with R. T. Cuauhtin, M. Zavala, & W. Au); she has also published two novels that feature teachers as main characters (White Bread and The Inheritance). Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, and the National Association for Multicultural Education Exceptional Service Award.