Felicity Crawford
Program Director, Education for Equity & Social Justice
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Felicity Crawford is a clinical associate professor of special education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & 人类发展. She is an experienced preK-12 educator who has worked for many years, and at every grade level, in racially and culturally diverse classroom settings. Her research interests include teacher ideology, the social context of urban special education, and pathways toward effectively transforming the experiences of students from diverse racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds in urban special education classrooms.
Before she came to BU Wheelock, Dr. Crawford served as project coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she successfully recruited, supervised, and taught several cohorts of master’s-level students seeking dual licensure in special and general education at the secondary level.
Recent News
- Scholarly Accomplishments April 2025
- BU Wheelock Scholarly Accomplishments February 2025
- New Master’s Program Explores Education for Equity and Social Justice
- BU Wheelock and Landmark School Announce New Partnership
In the Media
- Reducing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to a Catchphrase Undermines Its True Purpose
- It’s Time for Higher Education Leadership to Embrace ‘Good Trouble’
- Wheelock College Launches New Online Master’s in Social Justice Education
- This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare
Education
EdD, University of Massachusetts Boston
MEd, Suffolk University
BMus, Berklee College of Music
Selected Publications
Crawford, F., Coleman, F. T., & Wiehe, E. (Eds.). (2024). Contemporary issues in equity, democracy, and public education: Multidisciplinary perspectives from education, social science, and health. Routledge.
Selected Presentations
Osborne, M., McKenna, T. J., Crawford, F. A., Shah, B., & Labadorf, A. (2025, March). FELIX: Detecting bias in scientific communications. Paper presented at the National Science Teacher Association, Philadelphia, PA.