Below is a list of my selected publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, edited special issues of journals, and book chapters in edited academic volumes.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Horsford, S. D., Alemán, E. A., Jr., & Smith, P. A. (2019). Our separate struggles are really one: Building political race coalitions for educational justice. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 18(2), 226-236.

Horsford, S. D. (2019). School integration in the New Jim Crow: Opportunity or oxymoron? Educational Policy, 33(1), 257-275.

Horsford, S. D. (2017). Making America’s schools great now: Reclaiming democracy and activist leadership under Trump. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(1), 3-11.

Sampson, C., & Horsford, S. D. (2017). Putting the public back into public education: Community advocacy and education leadership under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Journal of School Leadership, 27(5), 725-754.

Horsford, S. D. (2017). A race to the top from the bottom of the well? The paradox of race in U.S. education reform. The Educational Forum, 81(2), 136-147.

Horsford, S. D., & Powell, K. (2016). Second Chances Academy: Alternative school or pathway to prison? Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 19(1), 18-27.

Horsford, S. D. (2016). Social justice for the advantaged: Freedom from racial equality post-Milliken. Teachers College Record, 118(3), 1-18.

Horsford, S. D., & D’Amico, D. (2015). The past as more than prologue: A call for historical research. International Journal of Educational Management, 29(7), 863-873.

Horsford, S. D., & Sampson, C. (2014). Promise Neighborhoods: The politics and promise of community capacity building as urban school reform. Urban Education, 49(8), 955-991.

Horsford, S. D. (2014). When race enters the room: Improving leadership and learning through racial literacy. Theory into Practice, 53(1), 123-130.

Horsford, S. D., Sampson, C., & Forletta, F. M. (2013). School resegregation in the Mississippi of the West: Community counternarratives on the return to neighborhood schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1968-1994. Teachers College Record, 115(11), 1-28.

Horsford, S. D. (2012). This bridge called my leadership: An essay on Black women as bridge leaders in education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 21(5), 11-22.

Horsford, S. D., Grosland, T., & Gunn, K. M. (2011). Pedagogy of the personal and professional: Toward a framework for culturally relevant leadership. Journal of School Leadership, 21(4), 582-606.

Horsford, S. D. (2011). Vestiges of desegregation: Superintendent perspectives on inequality and (dis)integration in the post-Civil Rights Era. Urban Education, 46(1), 34-54.

Horsford, S. D. (2010). Mixed feelings about mixed schools: Superintendents on the complex legacy of school desegregation. Educational Administration Quarterly, 46(3), 287-321.

Horsford, S. D. (2010). Black superintendents on educating Black students in separate and unequal contexts. The Urban Review, 42(1), 58-79.

Horsford, S. D. (2009). From Negro student to Black superintendent: Counternarratives on segregation and desegregation. The Journal of Negro Education, 78(2), 172-187.

Rusch, E. A., & Horsford, S. D. (2009). Changing hearts and minds: The quest for open talk about race in educational leadership. International Journal of Educational Management, 23(4), 302-313.

Rusch, E. A., & Horsford, S. D. (2008). Unifying and integrating messy communities: Learning social justice in educational leadership classrooms. Teacher Development, 12(4), 353-367.

Horsford, S. D., & McKenzie, K. B. (2008). “Sometimes I feel like the problems started with desegregation”: Exploring Black superintendent perspectives on desegregation policy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 21(5), 443-455.

Edited Special Issues

Horsford, S. D., Stovall, D., Hopson, R., & D'Amico, D. (2019). (Eds.). School leadership in the New Jim Crow: Reclaiming justice, resisting reform. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 18(2), 177-179.

Horsford, S. D., Jean-Marie, G., Tran N., Carpenter, B., Adams, C., Schares, D., Sanders, K. (2017). (Eds.) School leadership and the Every Student Succeeds Act: Dilemmas and Possibilities in an Era of Inequality. Journal of School Leadership, 27(5), 618-620.

Horsford, S. D., & Heilig, J. V. (Eds.). (2014). Editorial introduction. Community-based education reform in urban contexts: Implications for leadership, policy, and accountability. Urban Education, 49(8), 867-870.

Horsford, S. D., & Tillman, L. C. (Eds.). (2012). Inventing herself: An examination of the intersectional identities and educational leadership of Black women in the U.S. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 25, 1-9.

Horsford, S. D., & Brown II, M. C. (Eds.). (2011). Editorial introduction. Leading for educational equity, engagement, and excellence: Perspectives of The Holmes Scholars®. Journal of School Leadership, 21(4), 514-520.

Book Chapters

Horsford, S. D., Mountford, M., & Richardson, J. W. (accepted, 2020). Community relationships. In C. Tienken (Ed.) The decennial study of the American school superintendent. AASA: The School Superintendents Association. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Horsford, S. D., James-Galloway, A., & Smith, P. A. (accepted, 2020). Leading while Black: The paradox and prospects of Black educational leadership in urban schools. In H. Milner IV & K. Lomotey (Eds.), Handbook on urban education. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Routledge.

Horsford, S. D., Smith, P. A., & Clark, C. (accepted, 2020). Inclusive leadership and race. In G. Theoharis and M. Scanlan (Eds.) Inclusive leadership for increasingly diverse schools. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge.

Horsford, S. D. (accepted, 2020). This bridge called my leadership: Theorising Black women as bridge leaders in education. In R. Niesche & A. Heffernan (Eds.) Researching identity and subjectivity in educational leadership. New York, NY: Routledge. [Reprint of article in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education].

Horsford, S. D., & Cabral, L. (accepted, 2020). Black women principals as protectors of Black Children: Othermothering, resistance, and leadership for community survival. In T, Jackson & N. Flowers (Eds.) Black mother educators: Protectors of Black children in schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

D’Amico, D., & Horsford, S. D., & Guiden, A. (accepted, 2020). In search of Black teachers: The irony of recruitment and hiring policies post-Brown. In A. Brown & K. Brown (Eds.) AERA Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color. Washington, DC: AERA Publications.

Trujillo, T., & Horsford, S. D., & (accepted, 2020). Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in the USA. In H. Gunter, S. J. Courtney, R. Niesche, & T. Trujillo (Eds.) Understanding educational leadership: Critical perspectives and approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

Tillman, L. C., & Horsford, S. D. (2017). Culturally relevant leadership in practice: A case study of a Black woman principal in the West. In C. Rogers, A. Hilton, and K. Lomotey (Eds.). Non- traditional educational leadership: Selected cases. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Horsford, S. D. (2016). Race and education in the Mountain West: Charting new territory in America’s racial frontier. In P. A. Noguera, J. Pierce, and R. Ahram (Eds.) Race, equity, and education: Sixty years from Brown. (pp. 155-173). New York: Springer Publishing.

Sampson, C., & Horsford, S. D. (2015). Beyond legal remedies: Toward funding equity and improved educational opportunities for English Language Learners. In S. Bon, K. Brady, K. Miksch, and J. C. Sun (Eds.), Law and educational inequality: Removing barriers to educational opportunities. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Horsford, S. D., & Clark, C. (2015). Inclusive leadership and race. In G. Theoharis and M. Scanlan (Eds.) Inclusive leadership for increasingly diverse schools. (pp. 58-81). New York: Routledge.

Horsford, S. D. (2015). Magnet school mom. In G. Theoharis and S. Dotger (Eds.) On the high wire: Education professors walk between work and parenting. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Horsford, S. D. (2014). This bridge called my leadership: An essay on Black women as bridge leaders in education. In S. D. Horsford and L. C. Tillman (Eds.), Intersectional identities and educational leadership of Black women in the USA. (pp. 11-22). Abingdon: Routledge. [Reprint of article in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education].

Horsford, S. D., & Grosland, T. (2013). Badges of inferiority: The racialization of achievement in U.S. education. In M. Lynn, and A. Dixson (Eds.), The handbook of critical race theory in education (pp. 153-166). New York: Routledge.