Erika M. Kitzmiller, Ph.D.,
Assistant Clinical Professor

Program Associations:

• Education Policy
• Teacher Education

Education:

• Ph.D., (joint) History and Education, Culture, and Society, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
• M.P.A., Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania (2008)
• B.A., Wellesley College (2000)

Areas of Expertise:

• History of Race, Social Inequality, and Education
• Educational Policy
• Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Professional Experience

• Drexel University, School of Education (Sept. 2012–present)
  Assistant Clinical Professor, Education Policy and Teacher Education
• Qualitative Researcher, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania (2012-present)
• University of Pennsylvania, History Department and The Penn Institute for Urban Research (July 2012–present)
  Visiting Scholar
• University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and Urban Studies Program (2008–12)
  Instructor
• Wayland Middle School—Wayland, MA (2003–04)
  Social Studies Teacher
• The Calhoun School—New York, NY (2002–03)
  Assistant Director of the Middle School, and Social Studies Teacher
• The Steppingstone Foundation—Boston, MA (2000–02)
  Associate Dean of Placement, Fellow

Selected Works:

• Kitzmiller, Erika M. “‘You Can’t Control Me!’: Cultivating Authority in a Struggling Urban High School” (in press, Teachers College Record)
• Goodman, Joan F., and Erika M. Kitzmiller. “Suppression of the Aggressive Impulse: Conceptual Difficulties in Anti-Violence Programs.” Ethics and Education 5, no. 2 (July 2010): 117–134.
• Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Education and Equality of Opportunity,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (invited entry)
• Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Making Jewels out of Rough Diamonds”: Memories of the Wissahickon Boys Club, The Crier, Fall 2011.

Awards and Fellowships:

• Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship, semi-finalist
• MacArthur Foundation, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, subcontract,Dr. Dennis Culhane and Dr. John Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania, co-PIs

Selected Presentations:

• “The Politics of Poverty: Philadelphia’s Teachers Respond to the Great Depression,” American Education Research Association Meeting, April 2013.
• “Using Film to Include Teacher in Conversations about Educational Reform,” American Education Research Association Meeting, April 2013.
• “Imperial Fantasies: Children’s Literature in the White City,” History of Education Society Meeting, November 2012.
• “A Theoretical Toolbox: Using Theories of Gender and Sexuality to Uncover New Histories of Education,” American Educational Research Association Meeting, April 2012.
• “Imperial Fantasies: Children’s Literature in the White City,” History of Education Society Meeting, November 2012.
• “A Theoretical Toolbox: Using Theories of Gender and Sexuality to Uncover New Histories of Education,”American Educational Research Association Meeting, April 2012.
• “Shattering Institutional Boundaries: Germantown High School, 1914–1928,” History of Education Society Meeting, November 2011.
• “Imperial Fantasies: Children’s Literature in the White City,” The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, May 2011.
• “Experiencing Schools: Using Film to Promote the Inclusion of Teacher Voice in Education Reform,” with Elisabeth Merrill, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Graduate Student Conference, April 2011.
• “You Can’t Control Me!: Cultivating Authority in a Challenging Urban High School,” University of Pennsylvania, Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship Graduate Forum, January 26, 2011.
• “Shattering Institutional Boundaries: Germantown High School, 1914–1928,” Bates Seminar, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, November 2010.
• “Mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro,” with Dr. Amy Hillier and Haftom Khasai, The Orrery Society, University of Pennsylvania, October 2010.