David Stovall

David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago. He holds a bachelor’s degree, M.Ed., and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship focuses on critical race theory, the relationship between housing and education, and the connections among race, place, schools, and the school-to-prison nexus.

Stovall is the author of Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools and Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption. He was also part of the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice in Chicago and served there as a volunteer social studies teacher from 2005 to 2018.