Jamel K. Donnor
The Fred Huby Memorial Professor of Education; Faculty Affiliate, College of Arts & Sciences and William & Mary Law School
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Areas of Expertise:
American Democracy & Education, American Constitutionalism, American Conservatism, Right-Wing Extremism, Education Law & Policy, Higher Education Studies, and Intercollegiate Athletics.
Profile
Professor Jamel K. Donnor is the Fred Huby Memorial Professor of Education, and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Education & Justice in the School of Education at William & Mary. Professor Donnor has faculty affiliations in the College of Arts & Sciences, and William & Mary’s Law School.
Professor Donnor is arguably one of the top experts and scholars in the field of education in the area of race, inequality, and the law. He has served as an expert rebuttal witness in Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, one of the first anti-critical race theory lawsuits in the United States; and Emily Mais v. Albemarle County School Board, an anti-diversity lawsuit at the K-12 schooling level.
Professor Donnor's scholarship and expertise have been quoted and referenced in mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Associated Press, NBC News, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Conversation, The 74 Million, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Mississippi Free Press. Professor Donnor has also been invited to appear on several media outlets, such as various NPR stations and Black Politics Today.
Professor Donnor’s scholarship has been published in top-tier scholarly outlets, including William & Mary Law Review, Education Policy, Peabody Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, and Race, Ethnicity and Education, and he has coedited five books covering an array of topics, such as Scandals in College Sports, The Resegregation of Schools, The Education of Black Males in a 'Post-Racial' World, Critical Race Theory in Education, and The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric.
Professor Donnor is a coauthor of the forthcoming book Name, Image, and Likeness in College Sports with Harvard Education Press, and earned a Certificate in Sports Leadership and Innovation from the School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management at Temple University.
Education
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005M.A. in Higher Education Administration, The Ohio State University, 1999
B.A. in Social Studies, Washington State University, 1997
Activities and Honors
Certificate in Sport Leadership & Innovation, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management Temple University (2026)
Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2026)
Nominating Committee Member, American Educational Research Association (2026-2028)