Maisha Winn Named to Top Scholars List

For the second year, Prof. Maisha T. Winn is among the top 200 education scholars in the United States, according to American Enterprise Institute director of education policy studies and Education Week blogger Frederick M. Hess. Chosen from more than 20,000 scholars, Winn and others on the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings are recognized for moving ideas from academic journals into the national conversation and shaping educational practice and policy.

Prof. Winn is the 2022-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She will spend her CASBS year examining how publications produced by Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) established in the late 1960s and early 1970s engaged the literary imagination with Black Cultural Nationalism. During the Black Arts and Black Power Movements, concerned Black parents, educators, and artists created IBIs initially as a reaction to harm and wrongdoing in U.S. schools but later transitioned to reimagining the education process for Black children and their families. Winn will be working on a monograph focused on an analysis of publications produced by a Chicago-based IBI, Institute of Positive Education, and how Black institution builders throughout the U.S leveraged their publications to participate in future/s making endeavors for Black Americans.