Postdoctoral Fellows

Zachary Brown is a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments at the Warner School and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. His interdisciplinary research engages critical theories of race and gender, particularly Black feminist criticism, to study the social foundations and cultural politics of education in postsecondary contexts. Specifically attending to the archive of student protest and discourses of educational resistance, his scholarship examines how the psychic residue of racial slavery and settler colonialism on college campuses structures contemporary higher education practices.

Eleni Duret is a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments in the Warner School’s Center for Urban Education Success, where she works with faculty to disseminate research outlining the transformation of East High School, and the Center for Professional Development and Education Reform, where she assists in implementing anti-racist/anti-oppression initiatives. Duret also teaches courses in the teaching and curriculum program. Before pursuing her doctoral degree, she facilitated informal and formal learning experiences for K-12 youth and teachers with the national afterschool college preparation program called College Track and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her research is grounded in critical aesthetic pedagogy and positive youth development as she seeks to understand how minoritized adolescents experience identity development and expression in public school settings.