Dr. Sabina Vaught is a Professor and Director of the Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership. Dr. Vaught’s research considers global carceral and liberatory knowledge movements broadly and the race-gender labor and conquest relationships among schools, prisons, and insurgent communities specifically. In her scholarly work, Dr. Vaught draws on a constellation of knowledge traditions. Her most recent book, The School-Prison Trust (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), is a co-authored ethnographic, legal, and cultural story of Indigenous self-determination and refusal in the face of school-prison conquest strategies in the long colonial war against Native peoples. Dr. Vaught’s teaching has extended to adult and juvenile prisons for state-identified women and girls, where she has facilitated Feminist Studies study groups. Dr. Vaught was a high school language arts teacher and leader in two city school districts and two bridge programs.
At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Vaught developed the Freedom Seminars.
BOOKS:
- Vaught, S., Brayboy, B., & Chin, J. (2022). The school-prison trust. University of Minnesota Press.
- Vaught, S. (2017). Compulsory: Education and the dispossession of youth in a prison school. University of Minnesota Press.
ARTICLE:
- Colón, M. & Vaught, S. (2022). Testimonialistas’ self-determination: Boricua mothers and colonial schooling. Feminist Anthropology 3(1), 75-91.