Davis Named 2021 NAEd/Spencer Fellow

Charles H.F. Davis III has been selected as a 2021 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is highly competitive and supports 25 early-career scholars working in critical areas of education research.

As a part of his fellowship, Dr. Davis will be working on a new project entitled “#PoliceFreeCampus: A Digital Ethnography of Black Campus-community Resistance, New Media Organizing, and Abolitionist Praxis for a Police-free Future.” The project broadly explores the ways campus policing enforces social, symbolic, and spatial boundaries between White-serving postsecondary institutions and the Black communities within which they are located, and how such enforcement renders Black people, on-campus and beyond, vulnerable to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence. More specifically, the study seeks to also understand and document the digitally-mediated processes by which Black campus actors and community stakeholders are collectively resisting the racial project of policing and challenging postsecondary institutions to adopt abolitionist visions of public safety and community care.

For more information about the NAEd/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship and this year’s fellowship recipients, please visit naeducation.org.