Amanda E. Vickery
Associate Professor
Amanda E. Vickery is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education and Anti-Racist Education and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of North Texas. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in social studies methods. Her research focuses on how Black women teachers utilize experiential and community knowledge to reconceptualize the construct of citizenship. Additionally, she explores Black women as critical citizens within the U.S. civic narrative. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Theory and Research in Social Education, Urban Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Social Studies Research, Multicultural Perspectives, Gender and Education, The High School Journal, Social Studies Research and Practice, and The International Journal of Multicultural Education.
Dr. Vickery is active in the social studies community serving on the Executive Board of the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Her co-edited volume (with Noreen Naseem Rodríguez) Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures: From the Nightmare of Racial Realism to Dreaming Out Loud will be released in November 2022 by Teachers College Press. Dr. Vickery is a former middle school social studies teacher.
Associate Professor
Amanda E. Vickery is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education and Anti-Racist Education and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of North Texas. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in social studies methods. Her research focuses on how Black women teachers utilize experiential and community knowledge to reconceptualize the construct of citizenship. Additionally, she explores Black women as critical citizens within the U.S. civic narrative. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Theory and Research in Social Education, Urban Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Social Studies Research, Multicultural Perspectives, Gender and Education, The High School Journal, Social Studies Research and Practice, and The International Journal of Multicultural Education.
Dr. Vickery is active in the social studies community serving on the Executive Board of the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Her co-edited volume (with Noreen Naseem Rodríguez) Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures: From the Nightmare of Racial Realism to Dreaming Out Loud will be released in November 2022 by Teachers College Press. Dr. Vickery is a former middle school social studies teacher.
