Dr. Marcelle Haddix

Dr. Marcelle Haddix is Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Distinguished Dean’s Professor of Literacy, Race, and Justice at Syracuse University.  She is an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, and Composition and Rhetorical Studies.  She holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Studies and Cultural Foundations of Education. She chaired the Department of Reading and Language Arts in the School of Education from 2015 to 2021. She is a founding co-director of the Lender Center for Social Justice. Haddix’s scholarly interests focus on the experiences of students of color in literacy and English teaching and teacher education and the importance of centering Blackness in educational practices and community spaces. Her work is featured in Research in the Teaching of English, Linguistics and Education, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Her book, Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me, received the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  In 2021 she received the Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy Advocacy from the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research. She is also past president of the Literacy Research Association. Haddix facilitates literacy and wellness programs for adolescent and adult communities in Syracuse, including the Writing Our Lives project for urban youth writers and a Black women’s literary club and free library project.  A reproductive doula and yoga instructor, she is co-founder of the Sankofa Reproductive Health & Healing Center and a founding member of Cafe Sankofa Cooperative in Syracuse's Southside community.