Vaught is working on a book project tentatively entitled, Vanishment: Disappearance as Gendered Punishment. This project continues the ethnographic study of the relationships between schools and prisons she engaged in her most recent book, Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School, and is conceptualized in her recent article, “Vanishment: Girls, Punishment, and the Education State”.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities welcomes visiting scholar Sabina Vaught, who is currently in residence through June 2020.
Vaught is working on a book project tentatively entitled, Vanishment: Disappearance as Gendered Punishment. This project continues the ethnographic study of the relationships between schools and prisons she engaged in her most recent book, Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and is conceptualized in her recent article, “Vanishment: Girls, Punishment, and the Education State” (Teachers College Record). A critical ethnographer, Sabina is interested in race and gender dynamics of community knowledge insurgency, the mechanisms and collusions of state counter-insurgency and private supremacist power, and the promise of radical reimagining.
Sabina is the founder and co-chair of the Carceral Studies Consortium at the University of Oklahoma. She also teaches feminist studies Inside one state-identified girls locked facility, and has previously facilitated feminist studies groups with state- and self-identified women at MCI Framingham in Massachusetts. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma, and previously worked at Tufts University in the Boston area.