• Marcelle Haddix
• Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race, and Justice
• Syracuse University

Dr. Marcelle Haddix is Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race, and Justice at Syracuse University.  She chaired the Department of Reading and Language Arts in the School of Education from 2015 to 2021. She is a founding co-director of the Lender Center for Social Justice. Haddix’s scholarly interests focus on the experiences of students of color in literacy and English teaching and teacher education and the importance of centering Blackness in educational practices and community spaces. Her work is featured in Research in the Teaching of English, Linguistics and Education, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Her book, Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me, received the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  In 2021 she received the Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy Advocacy from the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research.