Erica Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines how diverse groups-from school district leaders to students to community members-make sense of and negotiate education problems, policies, equity and justice amidst shifting social, political, and economic contexts.

Dr. Turner's book Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2020) has been awarded Erickson and Hornberger Outstanding Ethnography in Education Book Award from the Ethnography Forum, and the American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Book Award. Her work has also been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, Race Ethnicity and Education, and the Journal of Education Policy.

Dr. Turner was a middle school teacher in Philadelphia and an English language teacher in China before earning an M.A. and Ph.D in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.