Eve L. Ewing is a qualitative sociologist of education whose work is focused on the ways that large-scale social structures such as racism and social inequality impact the lived experiences of young people enrolled in urban public schools. Working through the lenses of Afrofuturism, Black feminism, and Du Boisian sociology, Ewing attempts to situate cultural organizing, the praxis of care, and relational accountability at the foundations of her scholarship. A former public school teacher, she is particularly interested in the role of schools as social institutions and in the ways that schools can construct, normalize, and reinforce forms of social inequality, the ways that educational inequities reflect social cruelties beyond the walls of the school building, as well as, conversely, the still-lingering possibility that educational spaces can be sites of joy and liberation. Ewing is the author and co-author of several books, including the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919; Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side (2018); a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot; and, most recently, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (2026).