Bio

Maisha T. Winn is the Excellence in Learning Professor in the Graduate School of Education where she also serves as the faculty director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity in Learning Initiative. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Futuring for Equity Lab. An ethnographer by training, Dr. Winn examines the intersection of language, literacy, and culture. Her research seeks to understand how non-dominant communities curate independent teaching and learning spaces to engage in writing, reading, and learning.

Dr. Winn was the A 2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and is a member of the National Academy of Education. She is a past president (2025-2026) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and is also an AERA Fellow.

Dr. Winn has authored several books including: Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms; Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; and Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education through Restorative Justice. She co-edited Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures (with Lawrence “Torry” Winn, Vajra Watson, and Kindra F. Block); Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning through the Disciplines (with Lawrence “Torry” Winn); and Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (with Django Paris). Her work has also appeared in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Review of Research in Education, Mind, Culture and Activity; and Anthropology & Education Quarterly.

Her new book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination, follows the work of institution builders during the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and how they leveraged the literary imagination in service of world-building.

Academic Appointments

Contact

  • Academic
    mtwinn@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Professor

Additional Info

2025-26 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
    Christina Hewko
  • Master's Program Advisor
    Jalyn Davis
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Misbah Naseer

All Publications

  • AERA Presidential Address 2026 The Future is Here: Historical Signals in Education Research Educational Researcher Winn, M. T. 2026: 1-9

    View details for DOI 10.3102/0013189X261448136

  • Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale: Assessing Teachers' Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education AERA OPEN Diemer, M. A., Winn, M. T., Winn, L. T., De Los Reyes, W., Kubi, G., Philip, T. M. 2025; 11

    View details for DOI 10.1177/23328584251394657

    View details for Web of Science ID 001630740800001

  • Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination Winn, M. T. Vanderbilt University Press. 2025
  • Looking Back to Look Forward: Leveraging Historical Models for Future-Oriented Caregiving DAEDALUS Winn, M. T., Tottenham, N. 2025; 154 (1): 70-81

    View details for DOI 10.1162/daed_a_02124

    View details for Web of Science ID 001425314200012

  • Restorative Justice, Civic Education, and Transformative Possibilities ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Winn, M. T. 2023; 705 (1): 156-171

    View details for DOI 10.1177/00027162231188566

    View details for Web of Science ID 001096030000009

  • Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures edited by Winn, L. T., Watson, V. M., Winn, M. T., Montgomery-Block, K. F. Cornell University Press. 2023
  • Eyes in the back of my head: Forecasting for Black Education. Journal of Futures Studies Winn, M. T. 2021; 26 (3): 1-5
  • Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through the Disciplines edited by Winn, M. T., Winn, L. T. Harvard Education Press. 2021
  • Transforming Our Mission: Animating Teacher Education through Intersectional Justice THEORY INTO PRACTICE Annamma, S., Winn, M. 2019

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00405841.2019.1626618

    View details for Web of Science ID 000479641400001

  • Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom Principles in Practice Winn, M. T., Graham, H., Alfred, R. R. National Council of Teachers of English. 2019
  • Justice on Both Sides: Restoring Education Through Restorative Justice Winn, M. T. Harvard Education Press. 2018
  • Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities edited by Paris, D., Winn, M. T. Sage. 2014

    View details for DOI 10.4135/9781544329611

  • Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Winn, M. T. Teachers College Press. 2011
  • Writing Instruction in the Culturally Relevant Classroom Principles in Practice Winn, M. T., Johnson, L. P. National Council of Teachers of English. 2011
  • Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Critical Social Thought Fisher, M. T. Routledge. 2009
  • Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms Langauge and Literacy Series Fisher, M. T. Teachers College Press. 2007
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