August 26, 2021
Kevin Henry from UW-Madison was awarded a “Theoris of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality in the Lives of Young People Writing Fellowship” by the William T. Grant Foundation.
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Henry is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
The scholarship is a new, one-off initiative led by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang and is open to scholars from various disciplines and academic traditions whose research aims to reduce inequality in education and in broader contexts. As a result of this one-year grant, the William T. Grant Foundation will publish two edited volumes of original grants from the grant recipients.
Henry’s proposal examined his preoccupation with black studies and how it shaped his research and experience with educational reforms after Katrina. The proposal was accepted for an interdisciplinary volume spanning several social sciences, told by authors how they came to meaningfully theorize blackness, indigenousness and racial education in their research in order to reduce inequality in the lives of young people.
As a fellow, Henry will receive a $ 2,000 scholarship, receive writing assistance and editorial feedback, attend a writing workshop, and present portions of his chapter in a webinar series.
“I am thrilled to be a Writing Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation and to be part of a collective of scholars who think, write, and strive to address and reduce systemic racism in education and beyond,” said Henry. “Additionally, I’m excited to be contributing to an anthology that will allow scientists to unzip and explore the theoretical / conceptual skeleton that resides beneath the body of our work.”
Henry added, “This writing fellowship is an opportunity for me to explore the necessary and often unarticulated role of theory in research and in our daily lives, how theory can be used to illuminate and challenge inequality and stratification, and as theory means one for liberation. “
Learn more about the William T. Grant Foundation Writing Fellowship.
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