Dr. Rebecca Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a Campus Distinguished Promotion Award in 2025. Dr. Taylor uses philosophy and philosophically-grounded mixed methods to investigate questions of ethics and justice in educational policy and practice. Her co-edited volume of normative case studies and commentaries on ethical issues in higher education, Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Case-Based Inquiry, was published with Harvard Education Press in 2021. More recently, she has advanced work on epistemic injustice and activism in higher education, resulting in articles published in AERA Open, Teachers College Record, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Theory, and a special issue in progress with Educational Philosophy and Theory. Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the Center for Ethics and Education at University of Wisconsin, and she received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Research Development Award in 2020. She previously served as Chair of the Philosophical Studies in Education SIG for the American Educational Research Association. She currently serves as Editor of Educational Theory and directs the Philosophy of Education program at Illinois.