I have a doctorate in Educational Studies studying the philosophy and history of education.

I consider myself equal parts student, teacher, and writer.

I teach ESPHE 3206: School and Society. I also TA for EDUCST 6891: Proseminar in Educational Studies.

I have also taught ESPHE 3410: Philosophy of Education and ESPHE 4403: Ethics and the Professional Context of Teaching. I was nominated by my students to receive the 2019 Educational Studies Teaching Associates TA of the Year award.

I was a 2018-2019 McPherson Fellow in the Center for Ethics and Education at University of Wisconsin Madison and University of Illinois Chicago. My project focused on the relational, rather than the distributive, justification of No Excuses policies in public schools.

You can watch a video of a panel I presented on concerning race and education here: Panel video.

Some of my recent publications are:

“Adding a Register of Relational Justice: A Fuller Picture of the Debate around No-Excuses Schools,” Studies in Philosophy and Education. doi: 10.1007/s11217-022-09815-x

 “The Color of Mind Discourse as an Educational Debt,” Educational Theory71(2), 267-287. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/edth.12475

“Interruption, Standardization, and Recognition after a Traumatic Brain Injury,” Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1909246

“Narrative Sharing: A Phenomenological Approach to De-Biasing,” in K. Stemhagen (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2019, 135-146. https://educationjournal.web.illinois.edu/ojs/index.php/pes/article/view/303/189

“Inviting a Change to the Status Quo,” Philosophical Studies in Education, 50., 150-159 http://ovpes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/15-Smith-Final-PSIE-2019.pdf

“Septima Clark Yelled: A Revisionist History of Citizenship Schools,” American Educational History Journal, 46(12), 95-110.

Beyond adjustment: Authoring a (re)learned reality. Health Communication, 34(8), 916-918. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1440505

Digital Badges in the First-Year Composition Classroom. Kairos PraxisWiki, Issue 22.1, 28 July 2017

I co-wrote the “Political Representation & School Funding” page on the Educational Inequity in Franklin County website. (I am also responsible for the footnotes and the page jumps found throughout the website).

Check out this podcast Chris Thomas and I did about student walkouts.