Dr. Jeannine Dingus-Eason currently serves as Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Rider University, where she leads efforts to diversify the state's teacher pipeline. She previously served as Dean of the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development at RIC, where she spearheaded accreditation, enrollment, community partnerships, and curricular innovation. 

 

Before moving to Rhode Island, she served as a Professor and the Program Director of the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. Dingus-Eason led a multi-site interdisciplinary doctoral program and taught research and DEI courses. She also worked as a faculty member at the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. 

 

A graduate of the University of Washington with a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Curriculum and Instruction, Dr. Dingus-Eason holds a Master's in Secondary English Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English, specializing in African American literature from the University of Rochester. Dingus-Eason is a scholar of Black education issues, focusing on Black teachers' pedagogy and community activism in historical and contemporary contexts. This research earned Dingus-Eason a Spencer Pre-Dissertion Fellowship and led to publications in educational research journals and book chapters. 

 

Her current research focuses on Black mothers of autistic sons, examining mothering practices at the intersection of race, class, gender, and autism. This body of research is captured in her forthcoming book, A Thousand Worries: Black Women Mothering Autistic Sons (https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Thousand-Worries).