Pauline Lipman's research focuses on race and class inequality in schools, globalization, and the political economy and cultural politics of race in urban education. She is the author of two books: Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring (SUNY, 1998), High Stakes Education; Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Routledge, 2004), and numerous articles on these topics. An advocate of activist and engaged scholarship, her current projects examine the relationship of school policy to neoliberal urban development. Her research as a UIC Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar (2007-2008) focuses on; Chicago's Renaissance 2010 school policy in relation to gentrification and displacement of communities of color. She is also director of UIC's Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education;and a founder of Teachers for Social Justice.

Dr. Marvin Lynn conducts qualitative research on the work, lives and experiences of African American male urban schoolteachers and the role of urban teacher education programs in developing teachers for racial justice. In addition, he charts and studies the development of the Critical Race Studies in Education movement in the United States and in Europe. He has a forthcoming book entitled What’s Race got to do with it? Critical Race Theory and the New Sociology of Education which is due out in 2008. He co-founded and organized the first ever Critical Race Theory and Education Conference in the United States. The year prior, he was a keynote speaker at the first ever Critical Race Theory seminar in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in several well-respected academic journals, including Teachers College Record, Qualitative Studies in Education and Review of Research in Education.  He also serves on the editorial boards of several education journals. Prof. Lynn was previously Associate Professor and Founder/Director of the Minority & Urban Education Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also taught in public and private elementary schools in New York City (Harlem) and Chicago. Dr. Lynn teaches courses on urban education, multicultural education, African American education, critical race theory and education, and methods of elementary teaching in urban schools.