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 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, and the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) special interest group's Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching and Research. Dr. Loder-Jackson is also co-editing a new book volume with two historians of education focused on the activism of Black educators from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement.
