Jessica Stovall

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Expert on Black teachers, Black educational studies, race and schooling, and the impact of antiblackness in K-12 schools.

Assistant professor of African American Studies College of Letters and Science jlstovall@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @_jessicastovall

Topics

• Historical and contemporary Black teachers' experiences with anti-Black racism.
• Black teachers' subversive resistance practices and their co-production of Black space they enact in the face of antiblackness.
• The role of race and racism in U.S. Public Schools.

Achievements

• Winner of a Critical Educators for Social Justice dissertation of the year award for her work on Black teachers' co-creation of fugitive spaces.
• Spencer/NAEd dissertation fellow, Ford Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship, and Fulbright scholar
• Author of The New Harriet Tubmans: Antiblackness and the Fortitude of Black teachers (forthcoming)

Tags

• arts/humanities
• education
• popular culture