Lynnette Mawhinney

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Lynnette Mawhinney, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Urban Education and Professor of Urban Education. She is also affiliated faculty in the Africana Studies Department. She started her teacher training at Penn State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education/English and Communications, with a minor in Movement Science to use for athletic training with youth and adults. Later, she earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Urban Education at Temple University. Dr. Mawhinney’s research focuses on the professional lives of urban teachers and pre-service teachers (with a specific focus on teachers of color), the schooling experiences of urban youth, biracial identity development, and autoethnographic approaches in educational settings.

Dr. Mawhinney has published extensively in both U.S. and internationally focused peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of There Has to be a Better Way: Lessons from Former Urban Teachers and We Got Next: Urban Education and the Next Generation of Black Teachers and co-editor of Teacher Education Across Minority-Serving Institutions: Programs, Policies, and Social Justice and Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Teachers’ Voices Across the Pipeline, and Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image. Dr. Mawhinney is also co-editor of the book series, Contemporary Perspectives on the Lives of Teachers: Opportunities and Challenges, with Information Age Press. Aside from academic books, Dr. Mawhinney is also a children’s book author. Her recent book, Lulu the One and Only, received an acclaimed starred Kirkus Review.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Associate Professor/Department Chair, Rutgers University-Newark
  • 2018–2020
    Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 2010–2018
    Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey
  • 2013–2014
    Fulbright Core Scholar/Associate Professor, University of Bahrain
  • 2007–2010
    Assistant Professor/Director of STEP to College, Lincoln University

Education

  • 2021 
    Children's Book Council, Kids' Book Choice Award Nominee
  • 2021 
    National Council for Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award
  • 2020 
    American Educational Studies Association, 2020 Critics Choice Book Award
  • 2020 
    Mom's Choice Award, Children's Picture Book Honoree
  • 2018 
    American Educational Research Assocation, Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award

Publications

  • 2022
    “In it together”: Activist teachers of Color networks combating isolation, Race Ethnicity and Education
  • 2020
    Unpacking and Complicating the Ethics and Pedagogy of Visual Studies with Youth, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
  • 2020
    Lulu the One and Only, Magination Press
  • 2020
    Strong Black girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image, Teachers College Press
  • 2020
    Teacher identity making, shifting, and resisting: The case of two former Teach for American corps members, Teacher Education Quarterly
  • 2020
    Hope and struggle to decolonize the preservice teachers’ mind: An urban education program history, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
  • 2019
    There has to be a better way: Lessons from former urban teachers, Rutgers University Press
  • 2019
    Opportunities and challenges in teacher recruitment and retention, Information Age Press
  • 2019
    The balance and imbalance of sampling former teachers hidden-by-choice: A snowball in summer, International Journal of Research & Method in Education
  • 2018
    I just feel so guilty: The role of emotions in former urban teachers’ career paths, Urban Education
  • 2017
    A call to arms for a paradigm shift in urban education: A movement. , The Educational Forum
  • 2017
    Teacher education across Minority Serving Institutions: Programs, policies, and social justice, Rutgers University Press
  • 2017
    Insights from teacher leavers: Push and pull in career development., Teaching Education
  • 2016
    Exploring the interplay of cultural capital, habitus, and field in the life histories of two West African teacher candidates, Teacher Development
  • 2016
    Passed along: Black women reflect on the long-term effects of social promotion and retention in schools, International Journal of Educational Reform
  • 2016
    A requirement and challenge to joke-ability in humor research: A fusion autoethnographic analysis, Qualitative Research Journal
  • 2015
    “Since feeling is first”: Exploring the affective dimension of teacher licensure exams, Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research
  • 2014
    Strategies for urban dropout prevention: Partnering with formerly incarcerated adult non-completers, Preventing School Failure
  • 2014
    We got next: Urban education and the next generation of Black teachers, Peter Lang
  • 2014
    The apprenticeship of observation in career contexts: A typology for the role of modeling in teacher career development, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
  • 2014
    Reconsidering rapport with urban teachers: Negotiating shifting boundaries and legitimizing support., International Journal of Research & Method in Education
  • 2013
    Using participatory research principles to re-think dropout prevention planning in urban communities., Educational Action Research,
  • 2013
    Coping with the crickets: A fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity development, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
  • 2012
    Being and becoming a teacher: A road to student advocacy between African-American and White pre-service teachers, The New Educator
  • 2012
    African-American pre- service teachers’ perspectives on urban education: An exploration at an HBCU. , The Urban Review
  • 2012
    The creation of restorative places for teachers in an urban school, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
  • 2012
    Othermothering: A personal narrative exploring relationships between Black female faculty and students., Negro Educational Review
  • 2010
    Let's lunch and learn: Professional knowledge sharing in the teachers' lounge and other congregational spaces. , Teaching and Teacher Education
  • 2008
    Coping with stress through validation: A tool of the teaching trade, Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research
  • 2008
    Laugh so you don’t cry: Teachers combating isolation in schools through humour and social support, Ethnography and Education
  • 2006
    Educational policy and reform for homeless students: An overview., Education and Urban Society

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    The Storied Experiences of Teachers of Color through Photovoice
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Spencer Foundation
  • 2019
    Participatory Evaluation of an Equity Audit Tool
    Role:
    Evaluator
    Funding Source:
    Walton Family Foundation Grant

Professional Memberships

  • American Educational Research Association
  • American Educational Studies Association
  • National Association for Multicultural Education
  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Contact Lynnette for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision