Maisha T. Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where she also co-directs (with Torry Winn) the Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center. Winn’s program of research examines the relationships between language, literacy, justice, and school policies. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher and eventually a high school English teacher. In 2012 she received the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award and in 2016 was named an American Educational Research Association Fellow. As a 2014 William T. Grant Distinguished Fellow, Winn shadowed restorative justice attorneys and practitioners in the West and Midwest. She is the author of several books, including Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Schools (published under her maiden name, “Fisher”); Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (published under “Fisher”); Writing Instruction in the Culturally Relevant Classroom (with Latrise P. Johnson); and Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; and coeditor of Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Research (with Django Paris). She is also the author of numerous articles in journals such as Review of Research in Education; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race, Ethnicity and Education; Research in the Teaching of English; Race and Social Problems; and Harvard Educational Review.
Maisha T. Winn is the associate dean and Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where she cofounded and codirects the Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center. Much of Professor Winn’s early scholarship examines how young people create literate identities through performing literacy and how teachers who are “practitioners of the craft” serve as “soul models” to emerging writers. Winn served as the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University (2019–20). She is the author of several books including Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Schools, Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (both published under maiden name, Fisher); Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; coeditor of Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Research (with Django Paris); Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice (Harvard Education Press), and Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom (with Hannah Graham and Rita Alfred). She is also the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Research in Education; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race, Ethnicity and Education; Research in the Teaching of English; and Harvard Educational Review.
