School of Education

Education

• Ph.D. in urban schooling, University of California - Los Angeles
• M.A. in education policy and management, Harvard University
• M.A.T. in secondary social studies, Johns Hopkins University
• B.A. in history/sociology, University of Virginia
  
  

Research interests

Race, education and inequality in American schools; the social, economic, legal and political contexts surrounding metropolitan schools; scope and dynamics of metropolitan segregation; policies and practices that nurture intentional integration; relationship between school and housing segregation

Career highlights

• Received the Charles P. Ruch Award for Teaching Excellence, VCU School of Education, 2021
• Received the VCU School of Education Outstanding Community Engagement Award in 2021
• Received the VCU School of Education Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2019
• Research Fellow, National Education Policy Center, UC Boulder
• Research advisory board member, National Coalition on School Diversity
• Research associate, UCLA Civil Rights Project, 2008-2012
  
  

Recent publications

• Simko, T. & Siegel-Hawley, G. (2025). Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 55(3), 531-562. https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/publus/v55y2025i3p531-562..html?utm_source=copilot.com
• Guan, H., Riggins, P., Simko, T., Mangat, J., Moe, C., Haider, U., Pantano, F., McMillian, E. G., Siegel-Hawley, G., Van Hentenryck, P., & Gillani, N. (2025). A community-driven optimization framework for redrawing school attendance boundaries arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17130
• Frankenberg, E., Farrington, C., DeBray, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Leibovitz, T., McCollum, S., Scott, J., & McDermott, K. A. (2025). Eroding integration: 21st century segregation trends in U.S. public and charter schools and implications for the enduring promise of Brown. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859251329310
• Siegel-Hawley, G., Taylor-Beierl, A., Frankenberg, E., Hewko, A., Castro, A. (2024). When public meets private: Private school enrollment and segregation in Virginia. Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. 30, 95. https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol30/iss2/5/
• Castro, A. J., Hewko, A., Clay, K. L., Siegel-Hawley, G., & Bridges, K. (2024). Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns. Educational Policy, 38(7), 1638-1675. https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048241271391
• Castro, A., Siegel-Hawley, G., Bridges, K., & Williams, S. E. (2023). Drawn Into Policy: A Systematic Review of School Rezoning Rationales, Processes, and Outcomes. Review of Educational Research, 94(4), 539-583. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543231195816
• Palencia, V., & Siegel-Hawley, G. (2024). Cultivating School Integration through Community Partnerships and Specialty Programs. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 23(3), 678–696. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2023.2200534
• Siegel-Hawley, G., Frankenberg, E., McDermott, K., McCollum, S., DeBray, E., Scott, J. (2023). Small Advances and Swift Retreat: Race-Conscious Educational Policy in the Obama and Trump Administrations. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31, https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.7536
  
  

Books

• Siegel-Hawley, G. (2020). A Single Garment: Creating Intentionally Diverse Schools that Benefit All Children. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/a-single-garment
• Siegel-Hawley, G. (2016). When the Fences Come Down: Twenty-First Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/9781469627830/when-the-fences-come-down/
  
  

Bio

Dr. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley’s research examines the scope and dynamics of school segregation and resegregation in U.S. metropolitan areas, along with policies for promoting intentionally integrated schools and communities. Siegel-Hawley has published numerous articles dealing with these topics in journals like Teachers College Record, the Harvard Educational Review, Educational Researcher and the Urban Review. She is also the author of two books, When the Fences Come Down: 21st Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation (UNC Press, 2016) and A Single Garment: Creating Intentionally Diverse Schools that Benefit All Children (Harvard Education Press, 2020). Siegel-Hawley teaches courses examining how and why equal educational opportunity is distributed so unequally across urban, suburban and exurban districts. She is a native of Richmond and a proud graduate of and former teacher in Richmond Public Schools.

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