Stephanie P. Jones, Ph.D. is an assistant Professor of Education at Grinnell College, where she teaches courses in Youth Culture, Young Adult Literature and Introduction to Educational Studies. Her two research strands examine Black women’s literacy practices and the exploration of racialized trauma in school curriculums. (www.facebook.com/mappingracialtrauma) She is part of the inaugural cohort of Associated Colleges of the Midwest Mellon Faculty Fellows and was recently awarded the STAR fellowship through the Literacy Research Association. She is working on a forthcoming manuscript about the intersections of surveillance, curriculum violence, and racialized trauma.