Eve Ewing, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
“Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side”
Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies Endeavors Colloquium
Thursday, April 18, 11:45am-1:15pm
Gordon Parks Room (201, 81 Wall Street)
Eve L. Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Ewing is a qualitative sociologist of education whose work is focused on the ways that large-scale social structures such as racism and social inequality impact the lived experiences of young people enrolled in urban public schools. She is the author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. She is also author of Electric Arches, which received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year’s best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She also writes the Ironheart series for Marvel Comics. Professor Ewing received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she served as Editor and Co-Chair of the Harvard Educational Review.