T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia, a fellow with the National Education Policy Center (University of Colorado, Boulder), a scholar at the Scholars Strategy Network (Harvard University), and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (Indiana University). His research focuses on education policy, the impacts that privatization (e.g., vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling, and alternative teacher certification) have on public schools, and the role that political ideologies play in shaping discourse and practices surrounding education.  His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels.

He received his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was named as the 2016 Outstanding Doctoral Student.  He completed a M.S. in Social Foundations of Education from Georgia State University, and a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education of History with a minor in Anthropology from Valdosta State University where, in 2016, he was named as a Distinguished Alumni of the James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education & Human Services. 

Additionally, he serves as the Secretary for the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) and as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Education Policy.

He was named as the Fieldale Scholar award recipient for the College of Education at the University of North Georgia and received the Teaching Excellence Award at the University of North Georgia.  He was inducted into the University of North Georgia's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society in 2019.  Additionally, he holds a Certificate for Effective College Instruction from the Association of College and University Educators.

His scholarly work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals of Education Policy Analysis Archives, Educational Studies, Urban Education, Critical Education, the Peabody Journal of Education, Critical Questions in Education, the International Journal of Play, Policy Futures in Education, Pro-Posições, the Journal of Family Strengths, Urban Education, Education and Urban Society, the Australian Educational Researcher and others.  His work has also appeared at the National Education Policy Center, the Progressive Magazine, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Education Week, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  He is co-editor of the book Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out (Peter Lang, 2015) which has received attention and acclaim from NPR’s Marketplace, NPR’s Code Switch, NPR Illinois, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, AlterNet, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Washington Post, NonProfit Quarterly, ReThinking Schools, The Brookings Institution, Teaching for Change,Atlanta Blackstar, Esther Cepeda’s nationally syndicated column, and was named as a Teaching for Change Favorite Book of 2015.  

He is a frequent guest on, and has had his work cited by, various NPR shows (Marketplace, Code Switch), NPR affiliates (WABE 90.1 Atlanta, NPR Illinois), the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Education Week, Atlanta Blackstar, WalletHub, NationSwell, The Real News Network, The State of Education (KVOI AM Radio), The Rick Smith Show, and has provided expert witness testimony before the Illinois State Senate.