Kristin Sinclair is an Associate Teaching Professor of Education Advocacy and Policy in the Educational Transformation (EDTR) program. Using primarily qualitative methods, her interdisciplinary, community-centered and research agenda seeks to understand the pedagogical, political, and emancipatory potential of the relationships between young people and their places. In doing so, she foregrounds a) young folks’ spaces, places, and communities as often-overlooked sites for their development and rich sources for teaching, learning, and democratic engagement and b) the assets, voices and perspectives of marginalized and racially minoritized youth and community members as critical policy actors as they resist and reimagine education policies, practices, and threats to democratic self-governance.
Her work is comprised of three inter-connected strands: (1) space, place, and education, (2) racial justice and youth civic engagement, (3) politics of education. She draws from critical theories of place, space, spatial justice, critical civic engagement, critical race theory and the politics of education; all of these strands expand how we conceptualize spaces and sites of education and young peoples’ agency and power therein.
At Georgetown, Kristin teaches classes in social justice and education, education policy, and organizational change in education and organizes EDTR’s speaker series, which aims to convene critical scholars, policy makers, educators, and community-based leaders around pressing issues of educational and racial justice. She has been the recipient of a grant from the Spencer Foundation to support a wide-ranging research project on education advocacy and organizing efforts in Washington, D.C. Currently, Dr. Sinclair is launching several youth participatory action research (YPAR) projects with DC high school youth.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Associate Teaching Professor, Graduate - Program in Educational Transformation