Assistant Professor
Educational Policy and Leadership
Degrees Held
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Policy Studies
- M.P.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Education Policy
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Policy Studies
- B.A., Brown University, American Studies | English & American Literature
Courses Taught
- Social Justice Advocacy in Student Affairs
- Sociological Foundations of Education
- Interpretive and Critical Research in Education I
- Educational Inquiry II
- Educational Studies: Community-Engaged Internship I & II
Research Interests
- Higher Education
- Race, Social Class, and Educational (In)equity
- Organizational Culture and Change
- First-Generation Faculty
- Critical Theory
- Social Justice Advocacy Development
Recent Publications
byrd, d. (forthcoming) Using institutional habitus to position colleges and universities as social actors (Educational Theory)
byrd, d. & Siddiqui, N. S. (2024). A critical examination of first-generation faculty scholarship: Demonstrating the need for intersectional, empirical analysis. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
byrd, d. (2022). How diversity fails: An empirical investigation of organizational status and policy implementation on three public campuses. Education Sciences, 12(3), 211
byrd, d. (2019). Uncovering hegemony in higher education: A critical appraisal of the use of institutional habitus in empirical scholarship. Review of Educational Research, 89(2), 171-210. Doi: 10.3102/0034654318812915
byrd, d. (2019). The diversity distraction: A critical comparative analysis of discourse in higher education research. Review of Higher Education, (42), 135-172. Doi:
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