Rate My Professor Mahasan Chaney

Chaney's scholarship centers on post-civil rights era education history, critical policy studies, and Black education, particularly the racial politics of education, politics of school punishment, and ideologies and discourses of federal education reform from the Great Society through the neoliberal era. Her first book project, Disciplining Opportunity: Antiblack Paternalism and Making School Punishment, offers an intellectual and cultural history of how opportunity discourses in policy have fostered punitive school discipline, perpetuating inequality and the school-to-prison pipeline for Black students. Notable publications include "Disciplining Our Own: Politicizing the Image of the Strict Black Principals, 1970-1985" (Journal of Urban History, 2023), "Undisciplining school discipline research: Refusing the racial paternalism to punishment pipeline" in New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth (Routledge, 2023), and "‘Black crisis’ and the ‘likely’ privatization of public education in New Orleans and Liberia" (Critical Studies in Education, 2019). She has received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship (2019-2020), Cogut Faculty Fellowship (2024), William T. Grant Foundation Writing Fellowship (2021), UC Berkeley Dissertation-Year Fellowship (2018), and Chancellor’s Fellowship (2012-2016).