Meet Dr. Subini Annamma

Prior to her doctoral studies, Subini Ancy Annamma (she/hers) was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons. Currently, she is the Director of the Walkout! Lab for Youth Justice and an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

Her research critically examines the ways students are criminalized and resist that criminalization through the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact youth education trajectories in urban schools and youth prisons. Further, she positions students as knowledge generators, exploring how their narratives can inform teacher and special education.

Dr. Annamma has researched extensively with multiply-marginalized youth of color in public schools and youth prisons. Her book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color and has won the 2019 AESA Critic’s Choice Book Award & 2018 NWSA Alison Piepmeier Book Prize.

Dr. Annamma is a past Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, AERA Division G Early Career Awardee, Critical Race Studies in Education Associate Emerging Scholar recipient, Western Social Science Association's Outstanding Emerging Scholar, and AERA Minority Dissertation Awardee.