Faculty Experts
Beth Ferri
Beth A. Ferri, Ph.D. is a Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at Syracuse University, where she also coordinates the Doctoral program in Special Education.
Professor Ferri has published widely on the intersection of race, gender, and disability, including articles in Teachers College Record,ÌýRace Ethnicity and Education,ÌýEducational Studies,ÌýReview of Research in Education,ÌýInternational Journal of Inclusive Education,ÌýRemedial & Special Education,ÌýMultiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners,ÌýFeminist Formations,ÌýHistory of Education Quarterly, and the Journal of African American History.
She has also published five co-authored and co-edited books: Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates (2006, with Connor, Peter Lang); Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies Law and Education (2013, with Kanter, SU Press); DisCrit: Critical Conversations Across Race, Class, & Dis/ability (2016, with Connor & Annamma, Teachers College Press); Stories from our Classrooms: How Working in Education Shapes Thinking about Dis/Ability (2021, with Connor, Peter Lang); and DisCrit Expanded (2022, Teachers College Press, with Annamma & Connor).