Annie McGlynn-Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Loyola University- New Orleans. In 2019, she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington, where she was a Comparative Law and Societies Studies Graduate Fellow. From 2019-2021 she held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Society at the Newcomb Institute of Tulane University.

Her research is motivated by an interest in factors that influence policy development and the implications for race, gender, and class equity. She examines these issues across three sites: health and social welfare programs, education, and the criminal legal system. Within health and social welfare programs, Annie focuses on how ideas about race, pregnancy, and poverty shape surveillance and control. The research has been supported by the University of Washington Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, National Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies, and grants from the Ford Presidential Library and Hayner Memorial Scholarship. Her work in this area has been featured in Psychology of Women Quarterly and other presses. Within education, she examines the relationship between school choice policies and resulting class and race-based inequities. Her current work focuses on school choice policies within Louisiana and caregivers’ navigation of the all-charter school system in New Orleans. Within the criminal legal system, she examines the long-term consequences of police contact with young people, which has been published in Social Problems, Race & Social Problems, and Race & Justice, and has been covered in outlets such as the The Seattle Times, Seattle’s NPR affiliate, and other news outlets.

Annie draws from engaged pedagogical approaches to teaching—focusing on the classroom as a site in which knowledge is produced collectively and helping students use sociological knowledge to analyze their own experiences. She has eight years of teaching experience—teaching in the areas of law & society, sociology of education, medical sociology, reproduction, and qualitative methods. Annie has published on student peer review and writing processes at Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology (TRAILS).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: aemcglyn@loyno.edu