Diana Slaughter Kotzin
Diana Slaughter Kotzin was the first Black woman to be tenured in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She served SESP from 1977-1997. Kotzin's research interests include culture, primary education, and home-school relations that facilitate in-school academic achievement. She was the inaugural Constance E. Clayton Professor Emerita in Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Learn more about Diana Slaughter Kotzin.
...You got these people that think that you don't look like a professor. What does a little five-foot-two Black woman from Chicago's South Side speaking like me have to do with your image of what a professor is supposed to look like?”
Diana Slaughter Kotzin