Eupha Jeanne Daramola

Assistant Professor
School of Education
University of California, Irvine

ej.daramola@uci.edu

Dr. Eupha Jeanne Daramola is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, University of California Irvine. Her research uses sociological and critical theories to examine how K-12 policy design and implementation shape racial inequities in the U.S. Her work centers Black and brown communities as agentic policy actors and authentic community governance as a solution to racially inequitable policy processes. She is currently studying Black communities’ role in shaping school safety and finance policies; and educators use of disaggregated data.

Her work has been published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Journal of Education, Urban Education, and Teachers’ College Record. She was a recipient of the 2023 American Educational Research Association (AERA): Division L Outstanding Dissertation Award.

 Prior to UCI, Dr. Daramola was an Associate Policy researcher at RAND, focused on evaluating the implementation of K-12 education policies with racial or economic equity goals. She was a Chancellor’s Post Doctoral Fellow at the Gevirtz School  of Education at UC Santa Barbara between 2022-2023. Dr. Daramola holds a M.Ed in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Southern California. Her research is informed by her time as a high school literature teacher in Philadelphia, PA.

Key Research Areas

Critical Policy Analysis, Racial Equity in Education, Community Engagement

Education

• Ph.D., University of Southern California
• M.Ed., University of Pennsylvania
• BS, Northwestern University