About Us
Founding Executive Director
Jamel K. Donnor
The Fred Huby Memorial Professor of Education; Faculty Affiliate, Arts & Sciences and William & Mary Law School.
Jamel K. Donnor, Ph.D., is a social scientist in the School of Education at William & Mary with faculty affiliations in Arts & Sciences and William & Mary’s Law School. His areas of expertise include Education Policy, Constitutional Law, American Conservatism, U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence and Intercollegiate Athletics.
Professor Donnor 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.
Professor Donnor draws upon political theory, legal history, and case law to examine questions that explore the relationship between law and racial inequality, and how the U.S. Supreme Court interacts with conservative ideology and right-wing movements in interpreting the Constitution.
Faculty Fellow
Amy Quark
Amy A. Quark is a Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. Quark is the William & Mary lead for The Local Black Histories Project, a community-university research collaboration in partnership with The Village Initiative, a grassroots, non-profit dedicated to educational equity. Through The Local Black Histories Project, faculty and students collaborate with the Black descendant community to interpret 20th century Black histories in the greater Williamsburg area.
Quark’s work on The Local Black Histories Project was recognized with the Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence in 2022, the national Alpha Kappa Delta Social Justice Award in 2023 and the Sharpe Professorship for Civic Renewal and Entrepreneurship in 2024. More broadly, she is the author of an award-winning book and numerous research articles.
This short video demonstrates the impact of this project on students. The video is focused on our research for the digital exhibit, Life on the Reservation Community.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Joseph L. Boselovic
Joseph L. Boselovic '11 is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Education, Democracy & Justice. Dr. Boselovic is a qualitative sociologist whose research examines the enduring nature of economic and racial segregation in American schooling with a specific focus on understanding the social contexts in which families choose schools.
His current work draws upon interviews to explore how low-income families chose and assessed schools within an experimental context in which they were provided with supports to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods with higher-performing schools. His research also explores how researchers, policymakers, and families of different economic and racialized backgrounds variably conceptualize ‘school quality’ and the implications of these different definitions for educational policy and social theory.
Chief Data Analyst
Jake Joseph
Jake Joseph is the Assistant Dean for Assessment, Accreditation and Accountability at the School of Education.
