Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Mahasan Chaney is Assistant Professor of Education. Her work focuses on the politics of race and discipline from the Great Society through the neoliberal era. At the Cogut Institute she will be completing her first book project, “Disciplining Opportunity: Antiblack Paternalism and Making School Punishment,” which offers an intellectual and cultural history of discourses of opportunity as a lens to examine the making of paternalistic and punitive school discipline policy. Her work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation/National Education Association and can be found in edited volumes and journals such as the Journal of Urban History and Critical Studies in Education.