Dr. Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

Biography

Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz’s research explores school policy as social policy and centers fundamental questions about 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.