Amelia standing at a microphone reading poetry at an open mic event at Columbia University. Photo by Armand Gerstenberger

Amelia standing at a microphone reciting poetry at an open mic event at Columbia University. Photo by Armand Gerstenberger

Thanks for visiting my site. My name is Amelia Simone Herbert and I am an educator, scholar, and writer from Rahway, New Jersey. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Education at Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. In Fall 2023, I will join the faculty of Barnard College, Columbia University as Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Studies.

I research and teach on the roles that education plays in the construction, articulation, and subversion of racialized inequality in global perspective. Prior to doctoral studies, I taught in Newark, New Jersey for nearly a decade and I have also worked as a teacher educator in programs that serve schools in New York City and Cape Town. My experiences as a teacher and learner fuel my commitment to research on the complex meanings of schooling in lived experiences. My research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the American Association of University Women, and the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation. I earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education from Columbia University and a B.A. in History from Duke University. I am passionate about poetryreading, teaching, writing, and living it.