Dr. Erika C. Bullock is Associate Professor of curriculum studies and mathematics education in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning the B.S. in computer science from Spelman College, she taught mathematics at the high school and two-year college levels in the Atlanta area. She then earned M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning with a concentration in Mathematics Education from Georgia State University. She also holds graduate certificates in geographic information systems, qualitative research, women’s studies.

Dr. Bullock’s work exists at the intersections of mathematics education, urban education, and curriculum studies. She examines issues and ideologies in mathematics and STEM education, particularly related to race, from a historical perspective. Through her research, she shows how mathematics and STEM education create and sustain racial inequities.

Dr. Bullock values interdisciplinarity and, thus, draws from diverse social theories and methodologies as well as perspectives from urban sociology, critical geography, Black studies, and science and technology studies.

Dr. Bullock is a 2017 National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2019-20 Nellie McKay Postdoctoral Fellow. She won the 2017 Taylor & Francis Best Paper Award for her paper “Only STEM Can Save Us? Examining Race, Place, and STEM Education as Property” published in Educational Studies. In 2021, she also won the Early Career Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education for her article “Intersectional Analysis in Critical Mathematics Education Research: A Response to Figure Hiding” published in Review of Research in Education. She has also published work in Educational Studies in Mathematics, The Mathematics Enthusiast, Multicultural Perspectives, The Journal of Education, The Journal of Mathematics Education as Teachers College, Teachers College Record, and Theory into Practice. She has also been featured in local, regional, national, and international media including The Atlantic, Wisconsin Public Radio, and PBS Wisconsin. She is also a featured expert in the film Counted Out.