Eve L. Ewing, Associate Professor for the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in the Division of Social Sciences, who joined the UChicago faculty in 2018. She is a sociologist of education whose work focuses on the impact of racism and social inequality in K-12 public school systems and how school communities can help interrupt and dismantle such problems.

Ewing was selected to give the faculty welcome at the October 2021, inauguration of Paul Alivisatos as the 14th president of the University of Chicago.

Her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side received the 2020 Laing Award, the top honor given annually by the University of Chicago Press. Ewing discussed the book in this 2019 Big Brains podcast episode, where she spoke of how race, history, and “institutional mourning” intersected in the largest mass public school closing in U.S. history.

Ewing has also written two poetry collections, Electric Arches and 1919, as well as the Marvel comic series Ironheart. Her work has also been published by major news organizations, including The New York Times and The Atlantic. Her latest book is Maya and the Robot, a novel for young readers.