UW–Madison’s Lesley Bartlett, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been elected president of the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE).
Founded in 1968, CAE is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship on schooling in social and cultural contexts, and on human learning both inside and outside of schools.
As the council’s president, Bartlett plans to steer the organization’s mission of promoting socially just, anthropologically grounded educational research. She emphasizes institutional capacity-building and efforts to diversify membership and leadership within the organization.
As a former co-editor of the peer-reviewed CAE journal Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Bartlett also brings an understanding of both the scholarly and organizational dimensions of CAE’s work in bridging anthropology and education.