Sabina Elena Vaught
Assistant Professor of Urban Education
Affiliate, American Studies

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Departments of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction
• M.Ed., Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, Secondary English Education
• B.A., University of Washington, English

Sabina E. Vaught is Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Education, with an affiliate appointment in American Studies. Dr. Vaught's research focuses on issues of equity in urban education and is grounded in Critical Race Theory. She is currently completing a book on the function of white supremacy in urban educational policy, forthcoming from SUNY Press. Additionally, she is conducting ethnographic research inside juvenile prison schools. Dr. Vaught teaches seminars in Critical Race Theory, urban education, qualitative inquiry, and gender.

Courses:
ED161 Sociology of the School
ED166 Masculinities in Urban Schooling
ED167 Critical Race Theory Seminar: Issues in Urban Education
ED191 Qualitative Methods

Publications:
Vaught, S. (2009). The color of money: School funding and the commodification of Black children. Urban Education In press.

Vaught, S. (2008). Writing against racism: Telling White lies and reclaiming culture. Qualitative Inquiry 14 (4) pp. 566-589

Vaught, S. & Castagno, A. (2008). "I don't think I'm a racist":  Critical race theory, teacher attitudes, and structural racism. Race, Ethnicity, and Education 11 (2) pp. 95-113.

Vaught, S. (2005). The talented tenth: Gay Black boys and the racial politics of Southern schooling. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education. 2 (2) pp. 5-26.

Lee, S., & Vaught, S. (2003). "You can never be too rich or too thin": Popular culture and the Americanization of young Asian American women. Journal of Negro Education. 72(4) pp. 457-466.

Work in progress:
"They might as well be Black": the racialization of Samoan high school students, article

Because this is not for us: Racism, public schooling, and the entrenchment of White supremacy, forthcoming, SUNY Press.