Race & Ethnicity Archives - Faculty Experts

Trey Adcock, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Expertise:
Curriculum Theory, Social Foundations of Education, American Indian Studies, Decolonial Studies, Indigenous Methodologies, Indigenous Education, Land Acknowledgement, Cherokee Studies, Land-Based Education, Traditional Ecological Knowledge Curriculum, Technology Integration in K-12; Cultural Studies, Oral history, Indigitization, Non-profit management, Community-based praxis, Grant Writing, Higher Education Recruitment and Retention

Bio:
Adcock is an expert in Curriculum Theory broadly, focusing on American Indian Education. His work includes recruiting and retaining American Indian students in Higher Education, documenting a Bureau of Indian Affairs-run day school in the TutiYi “Snowbird” Cherokee Community and technology integration at an American Indian boarding school in Oklahoma. Dr. Adcock has published in the Journal of American Indian Education, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Journal of Thought, Teaching Tolerance and Readings in Race, Ethnicity and Immigration. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Native Health 501(3)c and sits on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Cherokee Studies.

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Tiece Ruffin

Professor of Africana Studies & Education

Expertise:
Learners with special and diverse needs, Pedagogical approaches for equitable classrooms, African American Education, Education justice, Racial equity in schools, Exceptional children/ K-12 mild-moderate disabilities

Bio:
Ruffin specializes in curriculum and instruction with a focus on Neurodiversity (exceptional children/ special education), reading education, and African American education. She is a veteran teacher educator and defender of human rights as an education justice advocate, consultant, and freedom fighter working to dismantle oppressive and structurally inequitable education systems. She is an accomplished professional with the distinction of being the 2020 UNC System Board of Governor’s excellence in teaching recipient for UNC Asheville, ‘17-‘18 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana, a ‘16-‘17 N.C West Education Policy Fellow, Past-President ‘s Fellow of the National Association of State Director’s of Special Education, and a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar in the U.S. Department of Education.

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