BIO & EXPERTISE
A former classroom teacher and university professor with over two decades of experience in P-20 education, Katy Swalwell started her career teaching social studies at a public high school in the rural Midwest and a New England boarding school summer program. In 2011, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction and has held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, George Mason University, the University of Maryland-College Park, and Iowa State University, where she was a tenured professor. In higher education, her focus has been on elementary education undergraduate programs and graduate programs for social and cultural studies in education.
What Katy is most curious and passionate about is what helps people develop the knowledge and skills necessary to live well together in a diverse democracy with deep inequities. What do young people need to know and be able to do in order to help build a more just, sustainable, and equitable world? What tools and resources help educational leaders and teachers work with students in humane and loving ways—especially in a climate of increased partisanship and misinformation? Though she has worked with P-20 educators in a variety of educational contexts, grade levels, and disciplines, she is best known for her work focusing on schools serving predominantly white, affluent students and K-12 social studies education in the United States.
Katy's scholarship has appeared in practitioner publications like Educational Leadership, Rethinking Schools, and Teaching Tolerance as well as peer-reviewed journals like Curriculum Inquiry, Democratic Education, Education Policy, Theory & Research in Social Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Social Studies Research, and several edited volumes. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Urban and Suburban Elite (Routledge, 2013), Social Studies for A Better World: An Anti-Oppressive Guide for Elementary Educators (Norton, 2021) co-authored with Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Anti-Oppressive Education in 'Elite' Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales from the Field (Teachers College Press, 2021) co-edited with Daniel Spikes, and the "Amazing Iowa" series of children's books. She is also the co-host of the irreverent history podcast Our Dirty Laundry, which examines white women's complicity in white supremacy, and is the co-founder of Past Present Future Publishing, which helps authors bring local counter stories to life.
As a full-time consultant, Katy is available to facilitate virtual or face-to-face professional development for P-20 educators, coach educational leadership teams, develop curriculum, and conduct school equity audits.
What Katy is most curious and passionate about is what helps people develop the knowledge and skills necessary to live well together in a diverse democracy with deep inequities. What do young people need to know and be able to do in order to help build a more just, sustainable, and equitable world? What tools and resources help educational leaders and teachers work with students in humane and loving ways—especially in a climate of increased partisanship and misinformation? Though she has worked with P-20 educators in a variety of educational contexts, grade levels, and disciplines, she is best known for her work focusing on schools serving predominantly white, affluent students and K-12 social studies education in the United States.
Katy's scholarship has appeared in practitioner publications like Educational Leadership, Rethinking Schools, and Teaching Tolerance as well as peer-reviewed journals like Curriculum Inquiry, Democratic Education, Education Policy, Theory & Research in Social Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Social Studies Research, and several edited volumes. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Urban and Suburban Elite (Routledge, 2013), Social Studies for A Better World: An Anti-Oppressive Guide for Elementary Educators (Norton, 2021) co-authored with Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Anti-Oppressive Education in 'Elite' Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales from the Field (Teachers College Press, 2021) co-edited with Daniel Spikes, and the "Amazing Iowa" series of children's books. She is also the co-host of the irreverent history podcast Our Dirty Laundry, which examines white women's complicity in white supremacy, and is the co-founder of Past Present Future Publishing, which helps authors bring local counter stories to life.
As a full-time consultant, Katy is available to facilitate virtual or face-to-face professional development for P-20 educators, coach educational leadership teams, develop curriculum, and conduct school equity audits.
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