Assistant Professor Justin Grinage in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction was selected as a 2021 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow that comes with funds to support a full year of scholarship. Grinage was one of 25 fellows selected as the most promising new talent of educational researchers from a competitive pool of 249 applications from scholars of education. The fellowships are administered by the National Academy of Education, an honorary educational society, and they are funded by a grant to the Academy from the Spencer Foundation. The fellowship program has over eight hundred alumni who include many of the strongest education researchers in the field today.

Grinage’s research focuses on how youth in a multiracial secondary school classroom, located in the Minneapolis area, understand, experience, and resist racial trauma as well as the limits and possibilities for teachers to engender anti-racism and racial healing.

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