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Lauri Johnson
Associate Professor
Lauri Johnson
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion Hall Room 309C
Telephone: 617-552-1039
Email: lauri.johnson.1@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington
Courses
Theories of Leadership
Leadership for Social Justice
Reflection on Leadership Seminar
Introduction to Educational Leadership and Change
Research Interests
Social justice leadership; women in leadership.
Expertise
- Comparative & International Education
- Equity and Social Justice
- Urban Education
Department
Profile
Lauri Johnson joined the Lynch School faculty in the fall of 2009 as an Associate Professor and Director of the PSAP Ed.D. program for practicing school administrators. She also served as Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education from 2017 � 2021.
Before entering higher education, she was a K -12 practitioner for over 20 years, working as a reading specialist in Oregon and a special education teacher, professional developer, and district administrator focused on diversity issues in the NYC schools. As a multiculturalist she studies the lives and identities of diverse educators who advocate for more equitable learning experiences for all students and movements of parent and community activism in urban schools.
Her research is comparative, international, and often historical, and she has published widely (over 78 academic publications) on culturally responsive/sustaining leadership, policies and practices in the US, UK, and Canada, as well as case studies of successful school leadership in high poverty schools through the 20 country ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project). Johnson is a former Fulbright Scholar to the UK and the former co-convener of a WERA (World Educational Research Association) International Research Network on educational advocacy.聽
Learn more about her international research by listening to this podcast featuring her award-winning article on the lives and identities of three generations of UK Black and South Asian headteachers () and by watching this Teachers College Record video () on the history of Black-focused schools in Toronto and London, 1968-2008.
Publications
Book
- Bunch, M., Johnson, L., & Pak, Y. (Eds.) (forthcoming 2027). Reimagining culturally responsive learning spaces: Collective voices and shared practices. Routledge.
Journal Articles
- Washington, S., Johnson, L., & Chui, K. (2025). Indigenous methodologies in international research on Indigenous family and community engagement. Review of Educational Research,95(5), 1131 � 1177.聽
- Johnson, L., Moyi, P., & Ylimaki, R. (2023). Successful school leadership in the USA: The role of context in core leadership practices. Education Sciences, 13, 968, https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13100968聽
- Washington, S., & Johnson, L. (2023). Toward culturally sustaining/revitalizing Indigenous family-school-community leadership. Frontiers in Education, 8.聽
- Johnson, L. (2021). Portraits of UK Black and South Asian headteachers five years on: Leadership retention in the age of academization. Educational Management, Administration, & Leadership, 49(4), 662-684.聽
- Johnson, L., & Pak, Y. (2019). Teaching for diversity: Intercultural and intergroup education in the public schools, 1920s to 1970s. Review of Research in Education, 43(1), 1 � 31. (IF: 2.4)
Book Chapters聽
- Bunch, M., & Johnson, L. (forthcoming 2027). Oral history as collective action. In M. Bunch, L. Johnson, Y. Pak (Eds.), Creating culturally responsive learning spaces: Collective voices and shared practices for change. Routledge.聽
- Johnson, L. (forthcoming 2027). The past, present, and future of culturally responsive leadership in uncertain times. In M. Bunch, L. Johnson, Y. Pak (Eds.), Creating culturally responsive learning spaces: Collective voices and shared practices for change. Routledge.
- Johnson, L., Fuller, C., & Rein, N. (2026). Culturally responsive leadership. In S. Faircloth (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in education. Oxford University Press. Available at: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com.聽
- Scanlan, M., Johnson, L, & Washington, S. (2025). Inclusive leadership across social ecosystems: Family and community engagement. In G. Theoharis & M. Scanlan (Eds.), Leadership for increasingly diverse schools (3rd ed., pp. 279 - 320). Routledge.