Jonna Perrillo

Dr. Perrillo is assistant professor of English Education and formerly directed the West Texas Writing Project from 2005 to 2011. She received her Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from New York University in 2005, where she was trained in both English Education and education history methods. Dr. Perrillo’s book Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity (University of Chicago Press, 2012) examines the ways in which teachers and civil rights activists both collaborated and conflicted with each other in their efforts to reform public schools and the teaching profession from the 1920s to now.