Ezekiel Dixon-Román

Ezekiel Dixon-Román is a distinguished academic who recently transitioned from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice to Teachers College Columbia University, where he serves as Professor of Critical Race, Media, & Educational Studies and Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education. His academic journey includes a BA in Psychology and Spanish from North Carolina Central University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and both an MA in Psychology and PhD in Psychometrics from Fordham University. His groundbreaking research makes critical interventions in quantification technologies, examining how sociopolitical systems and race intersect with data practices. His book "Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education" received the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. As director of the SP2-Aliadas en Cadena Initiative, he pioneered virtual research methodologies to study women's empowerment programs in Venezuela, demonstrating innovative approaches to conducting research in high-risk regions. His work spans critical quantitative methods, algorithmic governance, and educational measurement, with particular focus on how power generates difference in bodily capacities and sociopolitical relations.