Dr. Maxine McKinney De Royston

Dr. Maxine McKinney de Royston is the Dean of Faculty at the Erikson Institute. Dr. McKinney de Royston’s scholarship centers around two research strands: understanding the multidimensional and politicized nature of teaching and learning; and examining how learning environments, such as STEM classrooms, operate as racialized learning spaces, interactionally and pedagogically.

She was formerly a Faculty Fellow with the Teacher Education Center and a co-organizer of the Junior Faculty of Color organization at UW–Madison. She has served as PI or Co-PI on grants from the Spencer Foundation, NSF, Ford Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.