Publications

• Ledesma, M.C., Ojeda, V.J., Coon, S. R. & Parker, L. (2022). Critical race studies in qualitative research: a review and future directions. (pp. 1-8). Vol. 36. International Journal of Qualitative Studies In Education. Published, 12/2022.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2110961
• Talia Dixson & Laurence Parker (2022). The Lion Refugee in Europe: A Critical Race/Anti-Blackness Counterstory. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies. 10. Published, 10/10/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221131016
• Mena, A.F., Parker, L. & Ortiz, S. (2022). Understanding Latinas/os/xs undergraduate experiences in a business school through the Working Identity lens. Journal of Latinos and Education. Published, 07/29/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2022.2104850
• Lam, J. & Le, K. and Parker, L. (2021). In the end there is no such thing as unconscious racism: CRT/AsianCrit counterstories by undergraduate students during the pandemic. Vol. 22. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies. Published, 10/30/2021.
• Coon, S. & Parker, L. (2021). Racial evasion policy: University leadership responses to incidents of racism in the age of neoliberalism. Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies. Published, 09/30/2021.
• Thomas, S. & Parker, L. (2021). Hearing and listening: Bridging the leadership divide between school connectedness and students’ lived realities. Urban Education. Published, 06/30/2021.
• Amiot, M. & Myers-Glenn and Parker (2020). Applied critical race theory: Educational leadership actions for student equity. Race Ethnicity and Education. Vol. 23, 20. Published, 03/01/2020.
• L. Parker (2019). Critical race theory and qualitative methods in education: Brief origins story and future directions. Oxford Research Encylopedia of Education. Published, 09/2019.
• Hotchkins. B. & N. Hotchkins, B. Bellot & L. Parker (2019). First year college student success for Black and other students of color. A Village initiative at the University of Utah. Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning & Leadership in Education. Vol. 4, 5. Published, 09/2019.
• Laurence Parker & Chandra Gill and LaTosha Cain (2017). Silent covenants in the neoliberal era: Critical race counternarratives on African American advocacy leadership in schools. In M.D. Young & S. Diem (eds.), Critical Educational Policy Analysis (pp. 155-174). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Press.. (pp. 20). Springer. Published, 07/01/2017.
• Silent covenants in the neo-liberal era: Critical race counternarratives on African American advoccy leadership in schools. In S. Diem & M. Young (eds). Critical Educational Policy Analysis. Springer Press. Accepted, 09/15/2016.
• Chapter 4: The utility of the Space Traders and its variations as CRT teachable moments. in G. Ladson Billings and W.F. Tate (eds) (2016), Covenant Keeper: Derrick Bell's enduring legacy. New York: Peter Lang publishers (pp. 57-80). Published, 08/01/2016.
• C. Mahon-Reynolds & L. Parker (2016). The overrepresentation of students of color with learning disabilities: How working identity plays a role in the school-to-prison pipeline. In D. Connor, B. Ferri & S. Anamma (eds). DisCrit: Disability studies and critical race theory in education (pp. 145-156). New York: Teachers College Press. Published, 01/04/2016.
• Parker, L. & McKinney, A. (2015). Social justice leadership and critical race theory in the mormon culture region. Urban Education. DOI: 10:1177/0042085015618715. Published, 12/29/2015.
  http://uex.sagepub.com
• Parker, L. (2015). What does critical race theory in education and qualitative inquiry have to offer each other now? Qualitative Inquiry, v. 21, n.3, pgs. 199-205. Published, 03/09/2015.
  http://qix.sagepub.com/
• "Oh you're Black but not British?' The dilemma of Black British intellectuals and new directions in critical race analysis in the UK. Pedagogy, Culture & Society (December, 2014, pgs. 1-7). Published, 12/2014.
  http://dx.doi.org/10/14681366.2014.984480
• As we embark on a new editorship: A statement from the AERJ-SIA editors. American Educational Research Journal, v. 51, n. 1, pgs. 4-7. Published, 02/2014.
  http://aerj.aera.net
• Lerna, R., Linick, M., Warren Grice, A., & Parker, L. (2013). The politics of education: Its development and what is needed for future leadership in a post-racial America. In L. Tillman & J.J. Scheurich (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational leadership for equity and diversity (pp. 22-43). New York: Routledge. Published, 07/2013.
• Olivia, N., Perez, J., & Parker, L. (2013). Educational policy contradictions: A Latcrit perspective on undocumented Latino students. In M. Lynn & A. Dixson (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Race Theory. New York: Routledge. Published, 06/2013.
• Parker, L. & Castro, E.L. (2013). An introduction to critical race realism: Theoretical and methodological implications for educational research. In D. Carter Andrews & F. Tuitt (Eds.), Contesting the myth of a post-racial era: The continued signifcance of race in U.S. education (pp.50-68). New York: Routledge. Published, 05/2013.
• Marshall, C. & Parker, L. (2010). Learning from leaders' social justice dilemmas. In C. Marshall & M. Oliva (Eds.), Leadership for Social Justice (2nd ed.),Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, pp. 219-239. Accepted, 04/01/2010.

Research Statement

Presentations

• Parker, L. & Rendy Morton, C. (2023, November 16). Loud white women please shut up: Understanding and pushing back for social justice leadership. Roundtable paper presented at annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, Minneapolis, MN. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/16/2023.
• Ojeda-Johnson, V. & Parker, L. (2023, April 15). The impact of racism: Creating constructs to measure the impact of racialized pandemics on Black and Brown undergraduate students. Roundtable paper presented at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/15/2023.
• M. Amiot & L. Parker. Disrupting the Normalization of Failure: Educational Leadership and Critical Race Theory for School Equity. Roundtable paper presented at University Council for Educational Administration 2023, Nov. 17, Seattle, WA. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/17/2022.
• Explaining bans on Critical Race Theory to Utah teachers. Tanner Lecture Series/School of Humanities University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/18/2022.
• M. Amiot & L. Parker (2019). Critical race theory and educational leadership: Applied possibilities for administrative school change. Round-table session at the annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, New Orleans, LA. Presentation, Presented, 11/21/2019.
• Smith, P., Smith, W.A., & Parker, L. Black graduate education in a post-truth era: Preliminary research on the development of a pipeline of African American doctoral students at the University of Utah. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/05/2019.
• Invited presentation at Hass Institute: UC-Berkeley, on critical race theory and educational leadership. Presentation, Presented, 05/02/2018.
• Critical race theory and implications for educational research & policy. Keynote presentation at the Miles-Johnson task force on excellence and equity in education and the education of black and poor children in Florida. At the Donald Tucker Civic Center, Tallahassee, FL. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/14/2016.
• Parker, L. (2016, April 8-12). VP Invited centennial session: Educating researchers for methodological diversity. Invited speaker session for Div. D. Invited speaker session at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/15/2016.
• Parker, L. (2016, April 8-12). Ethnography and the role of intersectionality and complex methodologies. Symposium of Div. D: Ethnography and public scholarship: Ethical obligations, tensions and opportunities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Washington, DC. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/13/2016.
• Critical race theory-origins & future: From centering race to space traders. Paper presented at Nomalidad Diferencia Education conference on qualitative research and education at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/24/2015.
• Parker, L., Gill, C. & Cain, L. (2015, April). Critical race counternarratives and neoliberalism in educational policy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/18/2015.
• Critical conversations roundtable on tensions among individual identities, intersectionalities and social justice in leadership preparation. Chair-Colleen Capper, Presenters-Barbara Pazey, Laurence Parker, Gerardo Lopez, Michael Dantley, Heather Cole, Linda Lyman. Presented at University Council for Educational Administration, Washington, DC. Presentation, Presented, 11/21/2014.
• M. Amiot & L. Parker (2014, Nov. 20-23). Equity road map, race and reform leadership for student equity. Paper presented at annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration annual meeting, Washington, DC. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/20/2014.
• A. Wilkinson & L. Parker (2014, Nov. 20-23). The invisible superintendents: Narratives of female superintendents in Utah. Paper presented at annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, Washington, DC. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/20/2014.
• Understanding race equality in education now and in the future. National seminar series (2014) on race, education & intersectionality: Getting the balance right. Invited lecture at the Center for Research in Race & Education-University of Birmingham, UK. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/24/2014.
• Social justice leadership in the Mormon culture region. A. McKinney & L.Parker. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration. Nov. 7-10, 2013, Indianapolis, IN. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/07/2013.
• Can poverty and race be overcome through critical race theory? Social justice leadership in the Mormon culture region. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA (April 27-May 1, 2013). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/01/2013.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

• African American doctoral student initiative. PI: Paula Smith. Co-PI(s): William Smith, Laurence Parker. Eccles Foundation, 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2018. Total project budget to date: $0.00

Geographical Regions of Interest

• United Republic of Tanzania
  Represented the Honors College leadership team to explore education programs and establish ties to develop integrated pathways of learning for Honors students (10/7 to 10/16/2019).