Dr. Katie Newhouse

Biography

Katie Scott Newhouse is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Program Director at NYU Steinhardt, specializing in Special Education. With a Doctorate in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Master's degree in Middle Childhood Special Education from Pace University, she also holds a Bachelor's in Anthropology from NYU's College of Arts and Sciences. Katie teaches at the Washington Square campus as part of the NYU Teacher Residency program. Her research interests include disability studies in education, specifically DisCrit and critical spatial theory, as well as exploring multimodal research methods and accessible pedagogy. Notable publications such as 'Tangled Threads Sideways Ruptures: learned, knew disability, pandemic schooling' and 'Why Devon leave classroom?' reflect her care-based research approach with youth identified as disabled, influencing teaching and learning practices. Prior to her role at NYU, Katie was a Bruce S. Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on Youth Wellbeing at Teachers College and is an active member of the Disability Studies in Education Special Interest Group within the American Educational Research Association.

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