Maisha Winn

Maisha T. Winn is the Excellence in Learning Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University where she also serves as the faculty director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Equity in Learning Initiative.  Winn’s scholarship examines how non-dominant youth, and communities have developed literate trajectories across a range of historical and contemporary settings within and outside formal schooling. She seeks to understand how communities that have been depicted as under resourced create practices, processes, and institutions of their own—and what we can learn from those examples to build more just, more collaborative, and more equitable futures. During her tenure as a 2022-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at CASBS, Winn worked on writing a historical ethnography of Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Her forthcoming book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination (Vanderbilt University Press), examines how these institution builders leveraged print culture and the literary imagination to engage in dialogue about Black education.  Winn also participated in the Social Science of Caregiving working group at CASBS and co-authored an article (with Nim Tottenham) about historical models for caregiving in the special issue of Daedalus. Winn is a member of the National Academy of Education and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. She is the author of several books Justice on Both Sides, Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Winn is the president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Winn was a fellow at CASBS in 2022-23.

During her year as a faculty fellow, Winn will be working on a series of articles building on her Historiography for the Future method as well reflections on curating family archives.

For more information about Winn:
Stanford Graduate School of Education: https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/mtfisher
Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Equity in Learning Initiative:https://acceleratelearning.stanford.edu/initiative/equity-in-learning/
Futuring for Equity Lab: https://futuringforequity.stanford.edu/