Aireale J Rodgers

Dr. Aireale J. Rodgers is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and PI of the Racialization in Learning Environments (RILE) Collective research team. A learning scientist of higher education, she uses qualitative techniques to study faculty development, graduate student socialization, and classroom teaching and learning. Specifically, her work seeks to expose the mundane ways in which teaching and learning in U.S. postsecondary institutions socializes students to perpetuate ideological stances, material practices, and interpersonal arrangements that reify a racial capitalist order.

Her research has been published in venues such as the Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Educational Researcher, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Aireale holds a B.S. in Social Policy and an M.A. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy (with a concentration in higher education) from the University of Southern California.

When not thinking about equity and justice in higher education, Aireale is hosting dinner parties for loved ones, spending time with her partner and their little one, or scouring books by fantastic Black women, like Toni Morrison and Joy James, for inspiration.