Sonya Douglass Horsford is a senior resident scholar of education with The Lincy Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she focuses on the history of education in the U.S., politics of education, and role of schools in society. Her research has been featured in journals such as Educational Administration Quarterly, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and Journal of Negro Education. She is also editor of the book New Perspectives in Educational Leadership: Exploring Social, Political, and Community Contexts and Meaning (Peter Lang, 2010) and author of Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis)Integration (Teachers College Press, 2011). Horsford is the recipient of the 2011 Emerging Scholar Award by Division A of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), an award that recognizes a pre-tenure scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of leadership, administration, or organizational theory.