LAWRENCE: Dr. Subini Ancy Annamma, an Indian American assistant professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas, has been selected to receive the 2018-2019 Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship.
She will be hosted by the University of California-Los Angeles under the mentorship of Daniel Solórzano, professor in the Division of Social Sciences and Comparative Education for the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Ford Foundation Fellowships support individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement and those committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. Pre-doctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships are awarded annually in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
“The Ford Foundation Fellowship is wonderful recognition of the important work Dr. Annamma is doing on incarceration issues for students of color with disabilities,†said Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education. “This fellowship will give her a full year to continue her research in this area of growing significance.â€
As a fellow, she will be hosted by the University of California-Los Angeles under the mentorship of Daniel Solórzano, professor in the Division of Social Sciences and Comparative Education for the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Annamma’s proposed study will conduct a national survey within youth prisons to establish who is in youth jails and to interview incarcerated youths of color from across the country to trace how intersecting oppressions contributed to their criminalization.
Annamma received her doctorate in special education in 2013 from the University of Colorado-Boulder and has contributed to the field through her research on increasing access to equitable education for historically marginalized students and communities, particularly students with disabilities. She has authored 16 peer-reviewed journal articles, 11 book chapters, and she has also edited two books.
Annamma is active in professional organizations, collaborates with numerous colleagues, and has mentored and advised graduate students. She served as an associate editor of International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and is currently on the editorial board of Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners.
She was also the 2013 recipient of the AERA Dissertation Minority Fellowship in Education Research Award as well as the 2017 AERA Early Career Research Award.
Her research and pedagogy focus on increasing access to equitable education for historically marginalized students and communities, particularly students of color with disabilities.
Dr. Annamma's current work focuses on the experiences of young women of color with disabilities -linking the ways the intersections of race, gender, and disability are under surveillance and susceptible to punishment in public schools and juvenile incarceration.
Dr. Annamma is the first author on Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability, which was published in Race, Ethnicity and Education in 2013 and is included in the 2nd edition of Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education.
She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Equity & Cultural Diversity from the University of Colorado Boulder.
