Journal Articles

  1. Bridgeforth, J.C. & Pickett, A. (2026). Getting Back to “Traditional” Education: Racialized Norms in School Governance. AERA Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251404001

  2. O’Neal, D. & Bridgeforth, J.C. (2025). Reading Between the Lines: Neoliberal Racism and K-12 Education Policymaking. The Urban Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-025-00756-6

  3. McClure, S., Ditzel, K., & Bridgeforth, J.C. (2025). “I joined a sorority, so that helped a lot…”: The centrality of Black Greek organizational membership for HPWI Black students and alumni. Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice, 20(1), 48-65.

  4. Bridgeforth, J.C. (2025). Leading through the Fire: Responding to Racism in K-12 Schools. Journal of Research on Leadership Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427751251341299

  5. Bridgeforth, J.C. & O’Neal, D. (2024). (Re)Setting the Racial Narrative: AntiBlackness and Educational Censorship. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 32. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.32.7926

  6. Daramola, E.J., Enoch-Stevens, T., Bridgeforth, J.C., & Nkansah-Amankra, A. (2024) “On a Risky Slope of Democracy”: Racialized Logics Embedded in Community–School Board Interactions. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 46(3), 506-533. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737231175166

  7. Marsh, J., Bridgeforth, J.C., Mulfinger, L., O’Neal, D., & Tong, T. (2024). Shocking the System? The COVID Crisis and Virtual Schooling in Oregon. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

  8. Allbright, T. N., Dhaliwal, T. K., Alonso, J., Bridgeforth, J.C., Santander, M., & Kennedy, K. E. (2023). Schools as Solutions, Students as Problems: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Institutional Scripts in High School Websites. Educational Administration Quarterly, 59(4), 845–878.

  9. Alonso, J., Dhaliwal, T., Santander, M., Bridgeforth, J.C., Kennedy, K., & Allbright, T. (2022). Flipping the Script: Transformational Teamwork for Communicating Equity. AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 19(3), 52-62. 

  10. Bridgeforth, J. C. (2021). “This Isn’t Who We Are”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of School and District Leaders’ Responses to Racial Violence in Schools. Journal of School Leadership. 31(1–2), 85–106.

  11. Bridgeforth, J.C., Kennedy, K., Alonso, J., & Enoch-Stevens, T. (2021). Conceptions of Choice, Equity, & Rurality in Educational Research: A Review of the Literature on Rural Education and School Choice Policies. The Rural Educator, 42(2), 1-15.

  12. Bridgeforth, J.C. (2021). Yes, Black Lives Still Matter and Politics-Free Schools are a Myth. Texas Education Review, 9(1), 65-71. 

Book Chapters

  1. Marsh, J., Uka, A., Bridgeforth, J.C., Casar, M., Mulfinger, L., Alonso, J. (2025). Data and critical data literacy in democratic decision making: The case of school boards. In Schumacher, C. & Ifenthaler, D. (Eds.) International Perspectives on Educational Data Literacy Frameworks, Contexts, and Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003511991-5

  2. Bridgeforth, J.C. (2024) Beyond Board Etiquette: Responding to Racism in K-12 School Boardrooms. In Johnson, R.M. and Harper, S.R. (Eds.). The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools. Harvard Education Press.

  3. Patel, H. & Bridgeforth, J.C. (2021). “Sure, Black Lives Matter, but Why Do They Have to Loot and Riot?!”: Debunking Myths of Black Protest. In McClure, S. & Harris, C. (Eds.) Getting Real About Race. 3rd Ed. SAGE Publications.

  4. Bridgeforth, J.C. & McClure, S. (2016). Social Capital and Higher Education: Network Resources, Outcomes, and Opportunities. In Devitis, J. & Sasso, P. (Eds.) Higher Education and Society. Peter Lang Publishing

  5. Womack, V., Bridgeforth, J.C., & Beasley, B. (2014). “Black People Voted for Obama Just Because He’s Black”: Group Identification and Voting Patterns. In McClure, S. & Harris, C. (Eds.) Getting Real About Race: Hoodies, Mascots, Model Minorities, and Other Conversations. 1st Ed. SAGE Publications.

Book Reviews

  1. Bridgeforth, J.C. (2021). Review of Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education by Pérez Huber, L. & Muñoz, S. (Eds). The Professional Educator, 45(1), 21-24.

  2. Bridgeforth, J. C. (2021, March 3). Review of Suddenly diverse: How school districts manage race & inequality by E. O. Turner. Education Review, 28.

  3. Bridgeforth, J.C. (2020). Review of Crisis Management: Resilience and Change by S. Kovoor-Misra. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 29(2), 229-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12349