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Vanderbilt University
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Mailing Address
Peabody 514
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721

Phone Number
(615) 322-8030

Email Address
robert.l.crowson@vanderbilt.edu

Robert L. Crowson

Professor of Education

Vanderbilt University

Robert L. Crowson is Professor of Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. 

Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1994, he served as a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a joint appointment in Urban Planning and Education. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has previously served as a secondary school teacher and as a research director with the Michigan Department of Education. 

Professor Crowson’s research interests concern the study of urban schools and their organizational structure, school principals and district superintendents, the coordinated children’s services and community-development movements in education, and the politics of school-community relationships in education. 

Crowson is the author, co-author, or editor of nine books in the field of education.