In 2021, Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was awarded a Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality in the Lives of Young People Writing Fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation.
The fellowship is a new, one-time initiative spearheaded by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, and is devoted to scholars from various disciplines and scholarly traditions whose research aims to reduce inequity in education and broader contexts.
Henry’s proposal explored his engagement with Black studies and its shaping of his research on and experience with post-Hurricane Katrina education reforms. The proposal was accepted for a cross-disciplinary volume, set across several social sciences, by authors telling the story of how they have come to meaningfully theorize Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization in their research to reduce inequality in the lives of young people.
As a writing fellow, Henry will be speaking at an event hosted by the William T. Grant Foundation, titled “Learning to Theorize Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racism in Youth Research to Reduce Inequality,” that is a “multi-disciplinary storytelling conversation about learning to theorize race outside the tradition of our disciplines.”
The free, virtual event will take place on Thursday, April 27, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.