Sabina Vaught
Professor
Department of Education
Tufts University
United States of America
Biography
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Departments of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction M.Ed., Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, Secondary English Education B.A., University of Washington, English
Research Interest
Sabina E. Vaught is Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Education. She is Director of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and holds affiliations in Africana, American, and Colonialism Studies at Tufts. Dr. Vaught's scholarship and teaching are concerned with the production, disruption, and exchange of knowledge across powered, institutional terrains. Her forthcoming book, Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Juvenile Prison School (University of Minnesota Press) is a critical ethnography of one state’s juvenile prison schooling system. She received her doctorate in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a former high school English teacher.
Publications
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Vaught, S. (2012). Institutional grief: Prison, schooling, and racist melancholia, Harvard Educational Review, 82(1), 52-77.
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Vaught, S. (2014). Structural liberalism and anti-bullying legislation. Equity & Excellence in Education, 47(2), 152-166.
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Vaught, S. & Hernández, G. (2016). To whom it may concern: Epistolary political philosophies and the production of racial counterpublic knowledge in the United States. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48(5), 459-483.
