SCHOLARSHIP + TEACHING

Eve Ewing is a is a sociologist of education whose work is focused on racism and inequality, and the impact of these social structures on American public schools and the lived experiences of young people. She is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration through academic year 2017-2018; in 2018 she will assume the title of Assistant Professor. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her book When the Bell Stops Ringing: Race, History and Discourse amid Chicago's School Closures is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in fall 2018 and explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community.

Eve's past research has explored environmental racism and the experiences of youth involved in community organizing, and the work of Native American charter schools to sustain Native student identities while operating in a testing- and accountability-focused context. She has also served as an Editor and Co-Chair of the Harvard Educational Review, and was the recipient of Presidential Scholarship at Harvard University. 

Prior to her graduate study, Eve was a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, where she taught both science and language arts. She holds an EdM in Education Policy and Management from HGSE, an MAT in Elementary Education from Dominican University, and an AB in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago.

COURSES

• Instructor, Racism and Educational Inequality in the Lives of African-American Youth. Harvard Graduate School of Education (Spring 2016).
• Instructor, Education, Society, and Social Policy (Wellesley College, Spring 2016)
• Teaching Fellow, Ecology of Education. Harvard Graduate School of Education (Fall 2015).
• Teaching Fellow, The Arts in Education. Harvard Graduate School of Education (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013).
• Teaching Fellow, Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for Youth Facing Risk. Harvard Graduate School of Education (January terms 2013 – 2015).
• Teaching Fellow, Moral Adults, Moral Children. Harvard Graduate School of Education (Spring 2012).