Mahasan Chaney is an Assistant Professor of Education. Her research and teaching focus on education policy, and the history of education and center on three related policy areas: the racial politics of education, the politics of school punishment, and the ideologies and discourses of education reform.
Chaney rereceived her Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and was later a posdoctoral researcher with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSREA) and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Chaney received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship in 2019 in support of her historical research on school discipline policies. She previously worked as a restorative justice coordinator at her alma mater Berkeley High School.
