Keavy McFadden

 

Assistant Professor of Geography
Storm Hall 311B | [email protected]

Keavy McFadden is an urban geographer with specializations in urban development, urban infrastructure, education, social movements, and community-based research. While completing her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Keavy studied the intersection of education and urban politics in Chicago. Drawing on case studies of school closures, school choice expansion, and the redevelopment of former schools, her research examines how education landscapes are key terrains upon which racial and economic injustices are reproduced, reconfigured, and challenged. Keavy’s latest research project explores how community-led calls for a care-oriented Green New Deal organized around investments in social housing and public education reveal the entanglements between social reproduction and environmental justice.

Keavy’s research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota, and the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of AGITATE! Journal, an online, open-access platform that explores the possibilities and challenges of interweaving scholarship, activism, and artistry in search of justice.