PhD Candidate Ebony Perouse-Harvey recognized with Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Ebony Perouse-Harvey has been selected to receive a Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Perouse-Harvey is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan School of Education in the Teaching and Teacher Education program.
Through the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, Rackham recognizes scholars who have been nominated by their program for teaching excellence. Winners of this award demonstrate superb skill in teaching, mentoring, and advising. They bring creativity, inspirational commitment, and intellectual excitement to the classroom, discussion section, or teaching lab, and communicate this passion with their undergraduate students.
Perouse-Harvey also holds a master’s degree in Special Education (Learning Disabilities) and a Juris Doctor. Her main research interest and teaching practice focuses on the creation of professional development that supports both special and general educators in recognizing the impact of the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and (dis)ability in their classrooms and case management practices during the referral, support, and transition phases of the special education process. Ebony is completing her degree this academic year.