Givens Promoted to Associate Professor

historian and scholar on race and power in education, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor

Fugitive Pedagogy wins 2022 AAC&U Frederic W. Ness Book Award

The Ness award is given annually to the book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.

Jarvis Givens wins 2022 AERA Outstanding Book Award

Fugitive Pedagogy reviewed, Harvard Magazine

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

Jarvis Givens wins 2022 ASALH Book Prize

Fugitive Teaching

Through his new Black Teacher Archives Project, Assistant Professor Jarvis Givens wants people to know that the story of Black education and Black teachers is complicated — and worth telling.

The Classroom in Crisis

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s
“Fugitive Pedagogy”

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Critical Race Theory and the New ‘Massive Resistance’

Why some are comparing the national backlash against anti-racist teaching to Virginia’s strident campaign to resist school desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education

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The Black Teacher Archive to Launch at Harvard University


Teacher Becomes the Student