Beth Ferri, professor of inclusive education and disability studies, has been named associate dean for research in the School of Education. Ferri has coordinated the Ph.D. program in special education since 2006. She has published widely on the intersections of race, gender and disability, including her collaborative work (with David J. Connor and Subini Annamma) to establish a new area of inquiry, Disability Studies Critical Race Theory. She is currently co-principal investigator of Project INCLUDE, a $7.5 million, three-institution consortium (with Florida International University and Arizona State University) funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education to train and support doctoral scholars. In addition to over 60 journal articles and chapters, she has published five co-authored and co-edited books, including her two most recent volumes, “Stories from our Classrooms: How Working in Education Shapes Thinking about Dis/Ability” (with Connor; Peter Lang Press, 2021) and the forthcoming (with Annamma & Connor) “DisCrit Expanded: Inquiries, Reverberations & Ruptures” (Teachers College Press). Read more.