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Eve Ewing
Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986) is an American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. Ewing is an associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her academic research in the sociology of education includes her 2018 book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, a study of school closures in Chicago. She is the former editor at Seven Scribes and the author of the poetry collection Electric Arches, which was released in September 2017. In 2019, she published 1919, a poetry collection centered around the Chicago race riot of 1919. Additionally, Ewing is the author of the Ironheart comic book series for Marvel.
Ewing grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Her mother worked as a radio reporter and producer and her father as an artist. Ewing attended Northside College Preparatory High School. She was a part of Young Chicago Authors.
Ewing attended the University of Chicago, where she received an undergraduate degree in English with a focus on African-American literature of the twentieth century. She earned a Master of Arts in primary education from Dominican University and taught middle school English in Chicago Public Schools before attending Harvard University, where she earned a Masters of Education in education policy and management (2013), then a doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education (2016). At Harvard, Ewing served as editor and co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review.
Ewing was a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, then became an assistant professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice from 2018 to 2022.[citation needed] As of 2023, she is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity. She also is on the UChicago Committee on Education.
Ewing co-created and runs the Emerging Poets Incubator and Chicago Poetry Block Party. She also teaches with the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, a visual arts and humanities project that connects teaching artists and scholars to men at Stateville Correctional Center. She is also on the board of directors of the nonprofit MassLEAP, which builds and supports spaces for artist-educators and organizers to foster positive youth development through spoken-word poetry forums throughout Massachusetts.
Ewing is also one of the most popular sociologists on Twitter. Her Twitter account, operated as "Wikipedia Brown", drew 30 million views a month as of September 2017.
Much of Ewing's academic research has focused on school closures. Her Harvard doctoral dissertation was on school closures in Chicago, entitled Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side. It served as the basis for her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, which was published in 2018 by the University of Chicago Press.
Ghosts in the Schoolyard examines the demise of public schools in Chicago's Bronzeville district after the demolition of public housing, and analyzes community efforts to keep the schools open, including a community-wide hunger strike. In the book, Ewing introduces a concept she calls "institutional mourning," which refers to the multiple negative impacts experienced by the residents of areas where schools have been closed. According to The Chicago Reader, "she finds that school closures are a form of publicly sanctioned violence that not only derails black children's futures but also erases a community's past."
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Eve Ewing
Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986) is an American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. Ewing is an associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her academic research in the sociology of education includes her 2018 book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, a study of school closures in Chicago. She is the former editor at Seven Scribes and the author of the poetry collection Electric Arches, which was released in September 2017. In 2019, she published 1919, a poetry collection centered around the Chicago race riot of 1919. Additionally, Ewing is the author of the Ironheart comic book series for Marvel.
Ewing grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Her mother worked as a radio reporter and producer and her father as an artist. Ewing attended Northside College Preparatory High School. She was a part of Young Chicago Authors.
Ewing attended the University of Chicago, where she received an undergraduate degree in English with a focus on African-American literature of the twentieth century. She earned a Master of Arts in primary education from Dominican University and taught middle school English in Chicago Public Schools before attending Harvard University, where she earned a Masters of Education in education policy and management (2013), then a doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education (2016). At Harvard, Ewing served as editor and co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review.
Ewing was a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, then became an assistant professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice from 2018 to 2022.[citation needed] As of 2023, she is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity. She also is on the UChicago Committee on Education.
Ewing co-created and runs the Emerging Poets Incubator and Chicago Poetry Block Party. She also teaches with the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, a visual arts and humanities project that connects teaching artists and scholars to men at Stateville Correctional Center. She is also on the board of directors of the nonprofit MassLEAP, which builds and supports spaces for artist-educators and organizers to foster positive youth development through spoken-word poetry forums throughout Massachusetts.
Ewing is also one of the most popular sociologists on Twitter. Her Twitter account, operated as "Wikipedia Brown", drew 30 million views a month as of September 2017.
Much of Ewing's academic research has focused on school closures. Her Harvard doctoral dissertation was on school closures in Chicago, entitled Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side. It served as the basis for her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, which was published in 2018 by the University of Chicago Press.
Ghosts in the Schoolyard examines the demise of public schools in Chicago's Bronzeville district after the demolition of public housing, and analyzes community efforts to keep the schools open, including a community-wide hunger strike. In the book, Ewing introduces a concept she calls "institutional mourning," which refers to the multiple negative impacts experienced by the residents of areas where schools have been closed. According to The Chicago Reader, "she finds that school closures are a form of publicly sanctioned violence that not only derails black children's futures but also erases a community's past."