Bio

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Title
Assistant Professor
Faculty Profile

My School
School of Education

Area of Study/Expertise
Critical Policy Analysis, Racial Equity in Education, Community Engagement

Office Location
Office 2066 | School of Education

Email
ej.daramola@uci.edu

Eupha Jeanne Daramola, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Eupha Jeanne Daramola is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, University of California Irvine. Her research uses critical theories of race to examine how racialized ideas and systems shape the design and implementation of PK-12 education policies in the U.S. She is currently studying Black communities’ role in shaping school safety and finance policies; and educators use of disaggregated data. Recently she was an Associate Policy researcher at RAND, focused on evaluating the implementation of K-12 education policies with racial or economic equity goals.

 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.

Education

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

Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Dissertation: Qualitative AERA Division L (2023)
  • Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara (2022-2023)