FACULTY & RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

Carol Camp Yeakey
Professor of Education

Carol Camp Yeakey is Professor of International & Area Studies, American Culture Studies and Urban Policy, on the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis. On July l, 2005, she will assume the post of the founding Director of the Washington University Center on Urban Research and Public Policy. Previous to her appointment at Washington University, she served on the graduate faculty of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Theory and Public Policy from Northwestern University. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was initially a public school teacher and administrator in the Chicago Public Schools. Prior to her appointment at the University of Virginia , she served on the graduate faculties of Purdue University , Rutgers University and Teachers College, Columbia University. Among her research awards and fellowships, she has been a Rockefeller Fellow and a Bush Fellow at the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy in the Department of Psychology at Yale University; a Ford Fellow of the National Academy of Education; and, a Dartmouth Fellow at the Center for the Study of Comparative Politics and Inter-group Relations in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College. Her areas of research are organizational politics and social welfare policy as said policy pertains to children, young adults and families. Having published extensively in national and international social science research journals, she has served as Senior Research Scientist at: the Kellogg Foundation; the Children's Defense Fund; the College Board; the Josiah Macy Foundation; and, the Educational Testing Service, among others. Similarly, she has presented her research at national and international venues as well, including but not limited to Oxford University, Oxford, England; University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain; Universita de Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, among others.

Her co-edited or authored books include:

Research and Thought in Administrative Theory;

Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity and Society in the New Millennium, Volumes I and II;

Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding;

Suffer the Little Children: National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty and Public Policy (in press);

Being on the Wrong Side of History: Race, Schooling and Social Policy in the ‘New South ”( in press); and,

Power, Voice and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Globalized Societies (under preparation), among others.