Ronald K. Porter

Ronald K. Porter is a doctoral candidate in the Social and Cultural Studies in Education program, with a designated emphasis in critical theory, at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Eckerd College and his M.A. in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include African-American educational thought and critical theories of race, gender and sexuality. His dissertation research traces the intellectual history of African-American educational thought looking specifically at the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, and James Baldwin.