Michelle Purdy '97

Michelle is an Associate Professor of Education in Arts and Sciences, Director of Undergraduate Educational Studies, Chair of the Department of Education Curriculum Committee, and an affiliate member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and the Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Her book, Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools, has been awarded the 2019 New Scholar's Book Award from Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Prior to her time as a university professor, she also served as an Associate Head of Middle School at St. Andrew's.