Barbara Applebaum

Barbara Applebaum is a Professor in the Cultural Foundations of Education program within the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her contact information includes email (bappleba@syr.edu) and phone (315.443.3702), with her office located in 407 Huntington Hall.

She holds a Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, completed in 1994.

Professor Applebaum's research lies at the intersection of ethics, education, and diversity, drawing on feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, and critical race theory. She investigates theories of self and agency necessary for sustaining social justice education initiatives, with focused work on critical whiteness studies, how white teachers negotiate their whiteness while committed to social justice, and conditions for just dialogue derived from epistemic injustice scholarship. Her scholarship also explores teacher self-reflection, classroom trust-building, and feminist interpretations of pedagogical authority.

She teaches courses including:

• CFE 710: Critical Whiteness Studies and Education
• CFE 700: Epistemic Injustice in/and Education