ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, PhD, is an interdisciplinary historian of education and teacher educator in the Teaching, Learning, and Culture Department at Texas A&M University. As a former social studies teacher, she aims to bridge past and present perspectives on African Americans' struggle for educational justice. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas, Austin.

Dr. James-Gallaway's first book project, Ordinary Sites: Black Students, Gender, and Class in 1970s Texas School Desegregation, is the first book-length study dedicated to Black Texas students’ experiences with pre-collegiate school desegregation and is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.