Lori Delale-O’Connor
Assistant Professor of Education, University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education
Phone:
412-624-1332
Email:
lori.delale-oconnor@pitt.edu
Topics of Expertise:
Adoption & Foster Care / African American Families / Economic Inequality / Public Policy / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
Website: https://www.cue.pitt.edu/person/lori-delale-o-connor-phd/
Twitter: @LoriDOCPitt
Lori Delale-O’Connor, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Education at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education. Her research focuses on examining the connections between families, communities, and education across spaces with a particular focus on fostering equity and justice for children and youth in urbanized educational systems.
Dr. Delale-O’Connor earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University where she was also a certificate fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences–a pre-doctoral training program funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. She also holds an M.Ed. in secondary education from Boston College where she was a Donovan Urban Scholar and taught secondary social studies in the Boston Public Schools. Dr. Delale-O’Connor’s work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Her wok has has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, and Urban Education, among other research outlets. She is also co-author of the 2019 book, “These Kids Are Out of Control”: Why We Must Reimagine “Classroom Management” for Equity (Sage Publications).
Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Delale-O’Connor was a research scientist at Child Trends, a non-profit research center focused on improving the well-being of children across the lifespan. There she designed and conducted evaluations of programs serving children and youth.
