Eve L. Ewing is an assistant professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Ewing's award-winning book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (University of Chicago Press, 2018) was called "superbly written and researched... at once poignant and deeply troubling" by NPR. She is also author of the widely-lauded collection of poetry Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017). Her work has appeared in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. She holds an EdD from Harvard University with a concentration in Cultures, Communities, and Education, as well as an EdM in Education Policy and Management from Harvard University, an MAT in elementary education from Dominican University, and an AB in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. In addition to her appointment at SSA, Ewing is a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago. Prior to her appointment as assistant professor, she was a Provost's postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago.