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Full-time Lecturer, Education, Culture, and Society Program, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
PhD, History of Education, New York University (2020)
2021-2022 Mellon/ACLS Leading Edge Postdoctoral Fellow, CDF Freedom Schools Program, Development of a Culturally Relevant Teacher Training Institute
2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow in History Education, Museum of the City of New York
2016-2017 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow
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Seize the Schools: (under advanced contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press) |
Teaching the World’s Teachers (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
Teaching Teachers: Changing Paths and Enduring Debates (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
— “Puerto Rico Can Teach So Much: The Hemispheric and Imperial Origins of the Educational War on Poverty,” History of Education Quarterly 61:4 (2021), 423-448. doi:10.1017/heq.2021.44.
— “Bilingual in the Big Apple: Bilingual Education Politics and the Making of New York’s Neoliberal Multiculturalism,” in New York City Since the 1960s (working title), eds. Kim Phillips-Fein, Johanna Fernandez, and Mason Williams (in progress)
— “The Question of Independence is Hot Among the Youth Right Now: Puerto Rican Youth Organizing in Postwar New York” in Youth in the Movement: High School Student Activism in Postwar America Since 1945, Dara Walker, Jon Hale, and Alex Hyres, eds. (forthcoming)
— “Mind Stayed on Freedom: The Legacy of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program,” in Education and Liberation: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought, Ronald Chennault and Derrick Alridge, eds. Co-written with Dr. Kristal Moore Clemons. (forthcoming)
Public Humanities
“Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” NEH K-12 Summer Institute, Summer 2025
“Centering Youth Agency in the Civil Rights Movement,” NEH K-12 Teacher Summer Institute, Summer 2023
Lauren Lefty, PhD 