Debra Van Ausdale

Background

Debra Van Ausdale was born in 1954 in the United States.

Education

Debra Van Ausdale studied at Deer Park High School. She then attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she received a Master of Arts degree in 1992 and in 1996 she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sociology and Criminology.

Career

At the beginning of her career, Debra Van Ausdale was an Assistant Professor at Valdosta State University in Valdosta where she served from 1995 to 1996. In 1996 she accepted the post of an instructor at Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe where she worked until 1997. From 1996 to 1997 she was a lecturer at the University of Florida.

In 1997, Debra joined Syracuse University in Syracuse where she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology until 2004. From 2012 to 2014 she was an Instructor at Florida Technical College. Nowadays she is an Adjunct Professor at Bethune-Cookman University.

Debra Van Ausdale's book "The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism", written together with Joe R. Feagin appeared in 2001, after Debra spent eleven months as a "non-sanctioning" adult observer at a daycare center. There she reached a rather disturbing conclusion, three-to-five-year-old children are more race-conscious than adults like to imagine.

Debra has also been a contributor to scholarly journals, including American Sociological Review and Journal of American Ethnic History.

Achievements

• Debra Van Ausdale is particularly known for her work The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism, as well as a contributor to a number of periodicals.

Works

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  • The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism

    (This study looks into how children learn about the 'first...)

    2001