Sherry L. Deckman

Sherry Deckman is a professor of education at Lehman College, the City University of New York (CUNY) and an affiliated faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Urban Education andSocial Welfare programs. She is also the current editor of the Journal for Multicultural Education (Emerald Publishing). Dr. Deckman’s current research and teaching focus on how educators are prepared to work with students from diverse race, class, and gender backgrounds, as well as how educators address issues of race, class, and gender inequity in schools. Other recent research has explored how undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds negotiate race, class, and gender while participating in culturally focused performing arts groups, which is the topic of her 2022 book, Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press). Dr. Deckman’s research has appeared in top venues in the field such as Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, the Journal of Teacher Education, and Urban Education.