Aggarwal Ujju

Ujju Aggarwal is a Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CUNY Graduate Center). Her research grows out of her longtime work as a community organizer and educator, and engages U.S. education policy in relation to race, class, gender, and urban space. Her manuscript in progress, Tracking Choice: Freedom, Rights, and the Structure of Citizenship Post-Brown is a historically informed ethnography that provides a critical genealogy of “choice”—as a key principle of reform and management in public education—to trace how neoliberal restructuring in the United States emerged in tandem with the winning of Civil Rights.