Creating and curating Black Educational Spaces for Black youth that are designed to center, support, and heal Black students by developing their self-determination, self-efficacy, and self-determination.
Articulating, exploring, and learning about group specific racio-ethnic racial literacies that account for people's varied, complex, and unique experiences with race, racialization, and racism.

Dr. Jordan Bell is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education. He is an award-winning Black Studies, English, Philosophy, and Teacher Education educator who teaches courses through a critical lens. Jordan obtained his Ph.D. in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. Jordan has research interests that center around Critical Race Theory, BlackCrit, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE), Healing Centered Engagement, and Racial Literacy. Those research interests culminate into two primary research strands: One is on developing educators' and students' racial literacy so that they can successfully respond to and engage in a multicultural world, and the other is in learning about and creating the conditions for Black Educational Spaces that are designed to center Black students' healing. Jordan has been awarded a Spencer Foundation Grant, been named as a 2022-24 Cultivating New Voices for Scholars of Color Fellow by the National Council of Teachers of English, and his work has been published in journals such as Comparative Education Review and Equity & Excellence in Education.

  • Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCON) Digital Humanities Fellowship, sponsored by Princeton University,  $5,000, 2023-2024
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellowship, 2022-2024
  • Online Educational Resources (OER) Fellowship at Brigham Young University (BYU), 2021-2022
  • Lumen Circles Fellowship, Belonging & Inclusive Teaching Fundamentals, 2021
  • Fulbright Specialist, 2023-2026
  • SUNY Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Social Justice Fellow, $15,000, 2023-2024
  • Research Focus on Black Education (RFBE), Travel Award for AERA, $500, 2023
  • Equity and Excellence in Education, For the Culture Creative Director Internship, 2021-2023
  • SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2022
  • From Ghetto to Greatness, Graduate Education Scholarship, $750, 2022
  • CUNY Urban Education, Racial Justice Fund Award, $500, 2022
  • CUNY Urban Education, Travel Award for AERA Presentation, $750, 2022
  • Lumen Circles Fellowship, Teaching with OER & OER-enabled Pedagogy, 2022
  • CUNY Graduate Center, Digital Research Institute (DRI) Seminar, 2021
  • Vassar College Visiting Scholar, “Introduction to Racial Literacy in Contemporary American Literature,” 2020-2021
  • CUNY Graduate Center, Tuition Fellowship, $50,000, 2018-2023
  • Dutchess County Black Achiever Award, 2016
  • Dutchess County Chamber of Regional Commerce’s Top Forty Under 40 Award, 2015
  • You Make the Difference Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Award, Dutchess Community College, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022

Bell, J., Green, K., & Sankofa Waters, M. B. (2024). For the culture. Equity and Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2023.2298581

Neuwirth, L. S., & Bell, J. (2024). Persistent environmental lead exposures disrupting black children’s neurodevelopment and quality of life trajectories: an under-recognized ACE in the hole. Journal for Multicultural Education, 18(3), 302–316. https://doi.org/10.1108/jme-11-2022-0160

Bell, J., & Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2023). Black lives matter and the making of Black educational spaces. Comparative Education Review Special Issue on Black Lives Matter in Educational Contexts. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722217

 

Robinson, R. P., & Bell, J. (2023). Dreaming beyond education policy: a BlackCrit analysis of ESEA and ESSA. Journal for Multicultural Education, 18(3), 245–258. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-11-2022-0146

 

Bell, J., Zaino, K., & Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2023). Racial literacy. In J. Gorlewski, L. Baker, & D. Gorlweski (Eds.), Encyclopedia of English language arts education. Brill.

 

Bell, J. (2022). Developing racial literacy in a community college first-year composition course. NCTE Special Issues Series, 2: Racial Literacies.

 

Bell, J., Baldridge, B., Aryee-Price, A. O. M., Darling-Hammond, K., & Campano, G. (2022). Kitchen table talk: Community wealth in the time of COVID. Equity and Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2022.2158403

 

Bell, J., & Zaino, K. (2022). Get to know me, homey: Exploring critical, relational, and racial literacy possibilities in academic, co-excavative letter writing. Journal for Multicultural Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-07-2021-0114 

 

Bell, J., Zaino, K., & Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2022). Diggin’ in the racial literacy crates. Equity and Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2022.2064354

 

Parks, S., *Ellwood, S., Bell, J., & Deckman, S. (2022). Going beyond antiracist pedagogical practices: Co-constructing a pro-Black classroom. Journal for Multicultural Education Special Issue on Legacies of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-10-2021-0193

 

Zaino, K., & Bell, J. (2021). We are each other’s breath: Tracing interdependency through critical poetic inquiry. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 31(1-2). https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.1997628

 

Zaino, K., & Bell, J. (2021). Beyond brutality: Addressing anti-Blackness in everyday scenes of teaching and learning. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 16(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.15760/nwjte.2021.16.2.3 

  • The New York State Department of Education, “My Brother’s Keeper Assessment,” $225,000, 2022 (Co-PI)
  • The Spencer Foundation, “BlackCrit Research Conference,” $50,000, 2022 (PI)
  • The League for Innovation in Community College, “ENG 101: An Introduction to Racial Literacy Through the Lens of Covid and Medical Racism,” $500, 2021 (PI)

TLPL788N—Special Topics in Education; School Exclusion: Policy, Practice, and Intervention