Ezekiel Dixon-Román is a Professor of Critical Race, Media, and Educational Studies and Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Psychometrics from Fordham University (2007), with prior degrees from The University of Chicago (MA, 2002) and North Carolina Central University (BA, 2000). His research critiques how quantification technologies reproduce racial and sociopolitical inequities, focusing on algorithmic governance, biopolitical systems, and Black radical traditions. He leads the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies and co-directs the Critical Computation Bureau. Key scholarly contributions include Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (2017, AERA Outstanding Book Award) and co-edited volumes such as Black Radical Love: A New Black Reconstruction (2023). His work interrogates the intersections of race, technology, and power, proposing speculative methodologies to reimagine sociotechnical systems. Dixon-Román has secured grants for urban education initiatives, public-private partnerships, and interdisciplinary collaborations. He teaches courses on critical data science, AI ethics, and Black studies in education. Education: PhD in Psychometrics (Fordham University) Affiliations: Director, Gordon Institute; Co-Founder, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational & Mixed Methodologies Awards: 2018 AERA Outstanding Book Award His current projects include exploring recursive colonialisms in technology and authoring Haunting Algorithms: Algorithmic Governance and Logics of Colonialism , which examines the colonial underpinnings of algorithmic systems.












