Dr. Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
- Associate Professor, Education, Health & Behavior
- Director, Doctor of Education Degree Program, Education & Human Development
Contact Info
- Email: diana.pawlewicz@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4163
Office Address
Education Building Room 200
231 Centennial Drive Stop 7189
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Biography
Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, Ph.D., a scholar of education reform and policy, is associate professor in the Educational Foundations and Research Program at the University of North Dakota. Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz’s research explores school policy as social policy and centers on fundamental questions around democracy and the role of institutions in creating or disrupting inequality. A historian by training, Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz constructs her scholarship upon an interdisciplinary foundation that brings together the humanities and social sciences.
Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz is the author of Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History; the editor of Walkout!: Teacher Militancy, Activism, and School Reform; many peer reviewed articles in outlets including History of Education Quarterly, Harvard Education Review, and AERJ; and a dozen essays in national outlets including TIME, Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. She has received funding from the Spencer Foundation as well as other organizations to support her research. Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz also served as an editor of Made by History published by Washington Post and, later, TIME Magazine where she worked to bring complex historical ideas to broad audiences.
Professor D'Amico Pawlewicz is currently at work on two book projects – Panic at the Schoolhouse! How the Politics of Fear Shaped American Public Education and Polarized the Nation, 1945 to the Present, and a co-edited volume that explores school safety.
At UND, Dr. D'Amico Pawlewicz teaches courses on scholarly writing, education policy, the history of education, and research methods. She was also the founding director of the Initiative for Rural Education, Equity, & Economic Development (I-REEED), a research collaborative dedicated to building local partnerships and producing rigorous research that supports rural schools, educators, and students. In 2020, Professor D'Amico Pawlewicz delivered the Chester Fritz Distinguished Faculty Lecture to the UND community, and in 2024, she received the University's B.C. Gamble Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research or Creative Activity, and Service.
Dr. D'Amico Pawlewicz currently serves as the Director of the College's Doctor of Education Degree Program.
-History of Education and Social Policy
-Politics of Education
-School Reform and Education Policy
-Teacher Unions, Preparation, and Policy
-Race, Equity, and Social Justice
ABOUT US
I-REEED stems from the conviction that public education is a critical social good that is inseparable from the mental and physical health of communities, economic development, and social justice. The primary goal of IREEED is to produce rigorous, solution oriented research that is relevant and useful to our local partners.
WHO WE ARE
- I-REEED is a research collaborative comprised of research active faculty and doctoral students at the University of North Dakota with expertise in a variety of areas.
- Together, we are committed to building local- and state-level partnerships and to producing research that is practical and actionable.
WHAT WE DO
- Build collaborations with state and local level educators.
- Produce rigorous, collaborative, solution oriented research that addresses the questions local and state educators care most about.
- Share findings that are useful and actionable.
For more information, contact I-REEED director Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz: Diana.Pawlewicz@UND.edu