Dr. Loder-Jackson bridges historical and contemporary perspectives on African American education in the U. S. South with an emphasis on examining the role of educators in advocating for educational, civil, and human rights in Alabama. She also studies urban education, particularly teacher preparation, recruitment, and retention, and school, family, and community relations. Dr. Loder-Jackson has published extensively in a cross section of education and history journals, including Urban Education, Urban Review, Peabody Journal of Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Negro Education, Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum's (AATC) Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) special interest group's Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching and Research, AERA's Educational Researcher, History of Education Quarterly, and Journal of African American History. She authored Schoolhouse Activists: African American Educators and the Long Birmingham Civil Rights Movement published by State University of New York Press (December 2015). Dr. Loder-Jackson is co-editing the forthcoming edited volume, Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era with Derrick P. Alridge and Jon N. Hale (University of South Carolina Press)..