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Jessica Lee Stovall’s research sits at the intersection of Black Studies and education. Her current work employs notions of educational fugitivity to theorize how Black teachers co-construct Black spaces and curate Black-affirming environments that rehumanize and sustain Black educators. Stovall's dissertation on Black teachers provides a blueprint for how they can create classrooms that promote liberated learning for students. This work was recognized with the Critical Educators for Social Justice Dissertation Award at the 2024 American Educational Research Association annual meeting. Her research has been generously funded by the Spencer Dissertation Grant, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching grant. Prior to her doctoral studies at Stanford, Stovall taught English Language Arts for 11 years in the Chicagoland area.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences