Dr. Angela Crumdy is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate School of Education’s division of Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems. Prior to graduate studies, she was a high school English teacher. As an interdisciplinary scholar trained in cultural anthropology, Dr. Crumdy is passionate about using ethnographic methods to explore the social lives of teachers and leveraging research findings to improve the experiences of teachers and the people they impact. Dr. Crumdy’s scholarship has won awards from major organizations in the fields of anthropology and education including the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the Council on Anthropology and Education. Dr. Crumdy’s primary research interests include the social lives of teachers, teacher retention, and social reproduction theory. She is particularly interested in the experiences of Black women educators throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.