Stuart Greene is associate professor of English with a joint appointment in the department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research has focused on the intersections of race, poverty, and achievement in public schools. This work has led to the publication of his coedited volume with Dawn Abt-Perkins, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding (Teachers College Press, 2003), for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award in 2005. He also edited Literacy as a Civil Right (2008) and coedited Bedtime Stories and Book Reports: Connecting Parent Involvement and Family (Teachers College Press, 2010) with Cathy Compton-Lilly.