Professor Thomas M. Phillip of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has been awarded the Spencer Foundation’s Midcareer Fellowship. With this year's induction of six inaugural fellows, the foundation is working to advance the understanding of compelling problems in education to support new skills to create innovative sets of knowledge in education research.
“I am immensely grateful to the Spencer Foundation for their willingness to invest in, nurture, and support the growth of educational researchers,” says Phillip. “Such trust in the creative capacity of scholars is unfortunately becoming rare within the contemporary politics of research funding. This is Phillip’s second fellowship through the Spencer Foundation.
Phillip’s research serves to nuance the relationship between racial ideology and education, specifically in the educational experiences of historically marginalized groups. Through the grant, he will investigate how teachers facilitate spaces where students learn to create, consent to, navigate, contest and re-imagine contemporary forms of marginalization, oppression and violence.
