Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at
Emory University and was president of the
American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2019–20.[1][2] Walker has studied the segregation of the American educational system for twenty-five years and published the non-fiction work The Lost Education of
Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.[3][4][5]
Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)[6]
Facing Racism in Education (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series, 2004)[7]
(with Ulysses Byas) Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)[8]
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools (The New Press, 2020)[9]
As editor
(with John R. Snarey) Race-ing Moral Formation (Teachers College Press, 2004)[10]
(with Sheryl J. Croft and Tiffany D. Pogue) Living the Legacy: Universities and Schools in Collaborative for African American Children (Rowan and Little, 2018)[11]