Boni Wozolek

Dr. Boni Wozolek is currently the Director of Inclusive Excellence and an Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work examines race, sexual orientations, and gender identities through qualitative research methods and teaching practices across educational contexts. Dr. Wozolek’s recent publications include two monographs, Assemblages of Violence in Education: Everyday Trajectories of Oppression (Routledge, 2021) and Educational Necropolitics: A Sonic Ethnography of Everyday Racisms in US Schools (Routledge, 2023), and two edited volumes, Black Lives Matter in US Schools: Race, Education, and Resistance (SUNY, 2022) and Queer Battle Fatigue: Education, Exhaustion, and Everyday Oppressions (Routledge, 2023). Dr. Wozolek has received multiple awards for her scholarship, including two book awards (AESA and AERA), a best article of the year award (Educational Studies), and early career award (AERA) and local awards that recognize her commitment to communities and activist work that foregrounds equity, access, and inclusion.