Department of Educational Leadership
and Cultural Foundations
Dr. Camille M.Wilson
Associate Professor,
Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
School of Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
362 SOE Building, P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Office: (336) 334-3467
Email: cwcooper@uncg.edu
Professional Biography
Make a career of humanity...and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Camille M. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations. She earned her Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001, and she joined the UNCG faculty in 2003. Before moving to North Carolina from California, she served as a teacher's assistant in a K-8 school, taught creative writing and journalism to high school students, and fulfilled a school administrative internship. She also worked as an evaluator of charter schools and parent education programs while completing her doctoral studies.
Personal experiences with educational inequity as a youth, along with an upbringing that emphasized the legacy of African Americans who worked, struggled, and died for social and political equality, deeply influenced Dr. Wilson's choice to become an educator.
Dr. Wilson's work emerges out of the intersection of cultural foundations and educational leadership, as it is holistically defined. She, in her teaching, research, and service, focuses on promoting transformative educational leadership that is affirming of diversity, culturally responsive, inclusive of family and community partnerships, and rooted in social justice goals. Feminist thought and methodologies heavily influence her work as well.
Two of Dr. Wilson's recent research projects have included the “Bridging the Cultural Divide” study of how educational leaders equitably address the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of public schools in the U.S. South and how diverse families experience U.S. Southern schooling. Scholarship related to this study has been published in The Journal of School Leadership, Education Administration Quarterly, and in book chapters. The second study involves extending scholarly analyses of African American families in education, paying particular attention to the intersecting influences of race, class and gender to develop empowering engagement strategies that both families and educators can use. In particular, Dr. Wilson has helped create a scholarly niche in education that examines African American “motherwork.” This work has been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Excellence and Equity in Education, and numerous other journals and books. Two of her forthcoming books include: Motherwork: The Politics and Pedagogy of African American Mothers’ Educational Activism; and, Bridging Cultural Divides: How Educators Advance Equity and Achievement in America’s Diverse Schools, which will be co-edited with Dr. Sonya Douglass Horsford.
Dr. Wilson is currently developing a new study that will explore transformative leadership in high poverty schools.
Courses
ELC 683 Engaging the Public in Education
ELC 616 Culturally Responsive Leadership
ELC 700 Critical Perspectives in Education, Leadership, and Cultural Foundations
ELC 688 A African American Families & Educational Equity
ELC 688 B Racial Change, Immigration, & U.S. Schooling
ELC 688 H Transformative Leadership in High Poverty Schools
ELC 665 Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
ELC 752 Theories in Educational Administration
ELC 664 Cultural and Political Dimensions of Schooling