Professional Biography
Angela Crumdy is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems division. Prior to graduate studies, she was a high school English teacher in Dallas, Texas. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Crumdy is passionate about using ethnographic methods to explore the social lives of teachers and leveraging research findings to improve the experiences of teachers and the people they impact.
Dr. Crumdy’s scholarship has won awards from major organizations in the fields of anthropology and education. In 2018, she received a dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for her study on the experiences of Black women primary school educators in Cuba. She was later named a 2020 Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education dissertation fellow. In 2022, she was selected as a Concha Delgado-Gaitán Presidential Fellow within the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE).
Dr. Crumdy’s primary research interests include the social lives of teachers, teacher retention, and social reproduction theory. She is particularly interested in the experiences of Black women educators throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she is involved with research about the educational trajectory of Cubans on the island and in the United States.
She currently serves as the co-chair for the Council on Anthropology and Education standing committee focused on African Americans, African Diaspora, and Education. Previously, Dr. Crumdy served as the Secretary/Historian for the American Educational Research Association’s Doctoral Student Council.
