Lynnette Mawhinney

Experience

• 2020–present
  Associate Professor/Department Chair, Rutgers University-Newark
• 2018–2020
  Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 2010–2018
  Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey
• 2013–2014
  Fulbright Core Scholar/Associate Professor, University of Bahrain
• 2007–2010
  Assistant Professor/Director of STEP to College, Lincoln University

Education

• 2021 
  Children's Book Council, Kids' Book Choice Award Nominee
• 2021 
  National Council for Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award
• 2020 
  American Educational Studies Association, 2020 Critics Choice Book Award
• 2020 
  Mom's Choice Award, Children's Picture Book Honoree
• 2018 
  American Educational Research Assocation, Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award

Publications

• 2022
  “In it together”: Activist teachers of Color networks combating isolation, Race Ethnicity and Education
• 2020
  Unpacking and Complicating the Ethics and Pedagogy of Visual Studies with Youth, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
• 2020
  Lulu the One and Only, Magination Press
• 2020
  Strong Black girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image, Teachers College Press
• 2020
  Teacher identity making, shifting, and resisting: The case of two former Teach for American corps members, Teacher Education Quarterly
• 2020
  Hope and struggle to decolonize the preservice teachers’ mind: An urban education program history, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
• 2019
  There has to be a better way: Lessons from former urban teachers, Rutgers University Press
• 2019
  Opportunities and challenges in teacher recruitment and retention, Information Age Press
• 2019
  The balance and imbalance of sampling former teachers hidden-by-choice: A snowball in summer, International Journal of Research & Method in Education
• 2018
  I just feel so guilty: The role of emotions in former urban teachers’ career paths, Urban Education
• 2017
  A call to arms for a paradigm shift in urban education: A movement. , The Educational Forum
• 2017
  Teacher education across Minority Serving Institutions: Programs, policies, and social justice, Rutgers University Press
• 2017
  Insights from teacher leavers: Push and pull in career development., Teaching Education
• 2016
  Exploring the interplay of cultural capital, habitus, and field in the life histories of two West African teacher candidates, Teacher Development
• 2016
  Passed along: Black women reflect on the long-term effects of social promotion and retention in schools, International Journal of Educational Reform
• 2016
  A requirement and challenge to joke-ability in humor research: A fusion autoethnographic analysis, Qualitative Research Journal
• 2015
  “Since feeling is first”: Exploring the affective dimension of teacher licensure exams, Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research
• 2014
  Strategies for urban dropout prevention: Partnering with formerly incarcerated adult non-completers, Preventing School Failure
• 2014
  We got next: Urban education and the next generation of Black teachers, Peter Lang
• 2014
  The apprenticeship of observation in career contexts: A typology for the role of modeling in teacher career development, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
• 2014
  Reconsidering rapport with urban teachers: Negotiating shifting boundaries and legitimizing support., International Journal of Research & Method in Education
• 2013
  Using participatory research principles to re-think dropout prevention planning in urban communities., Educational Action Research,
• 2013
  Coping with the crickets: A fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity development, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
• 2012
  Being and becoming a teacher: A road to student advocacy between African-American and White pre-service teachers, The New Educator
• 2012
  African-American pre- service teachers’ perspectives on urban education: An exploration at an HBCU. , The Urban Review
• 2012
  The creation of restorative places for teachers in an urban school, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
• 2012
  Othermothering: A personal narrative exploring relationships between Black female faculty and students., Negro Educational Review
• 2010
  Let's lunch and learn: Professional knowledge sharing in the teachers' lounge and other congregational spaces. , Teaching and Teacher Education
• 2008
  Coping with stress through validation: A tool of the teaching trade, Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research
• 2008
  Laugh so you don’t cry: Teachers combating isolation in schools through humour and social support, Ethnography and Education
• 2006
  Educational policy and reform for homeless students: An overview., Education and Urban Society

Grants and Contracts

• 2022
  The Storied Experiences of Teachers of Color through Photovoice

  Role:

  Principal Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Spencer Foundation

• 2019
  Participatory Evaluation of an Equity Audit Tool

  Role:

  Evaluator

  Funding Source:

  Walton Family Foundation Grant

Professional Memberships

• American Educational Research Association
• American Educational Studies Association
• National Association for Multicultural Education
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators