• 2024-2027. Brock Chancellor’s Chair for Teaching Excellence

• 2021 Brock University Distinguished Teaching Award

• 2021 Brock University Faculty of Education Award for Teaching Excellence

• Equity, diversity and activism in education
• Antiracist praxis
• Critical mixed-race theory
• Sociology of Education
• Access to postsecondary education
• First generation students

• Editor in Chief – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education

Book

James, C. & Taylor, L. (2023). First Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories. New York: Routledge.

 Selected Chapters and Articles

Taylor, L. (2022). Navigating shifting waters: Reflections from a critical anti-racist teacher educator. In J. Kitchen and L. Fitzgerald, & D. Tidwell (Eds.), Self-study and diversity III: Inclusivity and diversity in teacher education (pp. 210-235). Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004505216_011

Taylor, L. (2022). Education, covid-19, and the Canadian context: Meeting the needs of vulnerable students. In K. Tsujino (Ed.), School after COVID-19: Students, parents and teachers
in Japan and in the world. [Translated into Japanese].

Taylor, L. (2021). ‘I will treat all my students with respect’: The limits to good intentions. In C. James (Ed.), Colour matters: The experiences, education and aspirations of black youth (pp. 309-314). University of Toronto Press.

Kitchen, J. & Taylor, L. (2020). Preparing preservice teachers for social justice teaching: Designing and implementing effective interventions in teacher education. In C. Mullen (Ed.), Handbook of social justice interventions in education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29553-0_70-1

Tilley, S. & Taylor, L. (2018). Qualitative methods and respectful praxis: Researching with youth. The Qualitative Report 23(9), 2184-2204

Taylor, L. (2017). Race, color and family: Exploring possibilities of school engagement. In C. Monroe (Ed.), Race and colorism in education (pp. 181-192). Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity series.

Taylor, L. & James, C. (2015). Living up to expectations: 1.5 and 2^nd generation immigrant students’ pursuit of university education. In G. Man and R. Cohen (Eds.), Engendering transnational voices: Studies in family, work, and identity (pp. 175-192). Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Taylor, L. (2014). Engaging teacher candidates in anti-homophobia discussions: Reflections on caution, care and commitment. In D. Gosse (Ed). LGBTTIQQ2SA Stories of pride, courage and social justice in Canada (pp. 36- 42). Breakwater Books.

Mahtani, M.; Kwan-Lafond, D., & Taylor, L. (2014). Exporting Multiculturalism? Canadian Mixed Race Identities and Multicultural Policy. In R. King-O’Riain, S. Small, M. Song, P. Spickard & M. Mahtani (Eds). Global Mixed Race (pp.238- 262). New York University Press.

Mohan, E., Taylor, L., Venzant Chambers, T. T., Calore, J. (2013). Advancing educational leadership: Learning from multiracial literature. In L. Tillman & J. J. Scheurich (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity (pp. 227-247). Routledge.

James, C. & Taylor, L. (2013). “Talk to students about what’s really going on”: Researching the experiences of marginalized youth. In T. Kress, C. Malott and B. Porfilio (Eds.). Challenging Status Quo Retrenchment: New Directions in Critical Qualitative Research (pp. 147-167). Information Age Publishing.

McNeil, D. & Taylor, L. (2013). Radical love: A transatlantic dialogue about race and mixed race. The Asian American Literary Review. 4 (2), 15-26.

Taylor, L. (2012). A conversation with a Chinese ‘yardie’ about life as a Jamaican Canadian. In C. James and A. Davis (Eds.), Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence (pp. 191-207). Fernwood.

Cho, C. & Taylor, L. (2012). Re/mediating social justice education: Using on-line digital animation software to foster pre-service student engagement with equity issues. In S. Van Nuland & J. Greenlaw & (Eds.), Social Media and Teacher Learning (pp. 25-36). University of Ontario Institute of Technology E- Press.

James, C & Taylor, L. (2008a). Education will get you to the station: Marginalized students’ experiences and perceptions of merit in accessing university, Canadian Journal of Education. 31(3), pp. 567-590.

James, C. & Taylor, L. (2008b). Beating the odds and making their way in university: The case of three females of immigrant parents, Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education. 39(2), pp. 221-244.

Taylor, L.; James, C.; & Saul, R. (2007). Who belongs: Exploring race and racialization  in Canada. In G. Fuji Johnson and R. Enomoto (Eds.), Race, Racialization and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond (pp. 151-178). University of Toronto Press.

Taylor, L. (2000). Black, white, beige, other? Memories of growing up different. In C.E. James (Ed.), Experiencing Difference (pp. 59-70). Fernwood Publishing.

• EDUC 2P65: Teaching for change: Equity, diversity and inclusion in education
• EDUC 5P00: Social justice, power and politics in education
• EDUC 5P01: Introduction to social and cultural contexts in education: Developing a critical language
• EDUC 5P11: Culture, identity and pedagogy: Advancing a lived curriculum
• EDUC 5P17: Theoretical orientations in sociology and equity studies in education
• EDUC 5Q97: culminating seminar in educational studies
• EDBE 8P78: Equity, diversity and inclusion in Intermediate/Senior education