Dr Sam Schulz

Adjunct Sociologist of Education

Dr Sam Schulz is a first generation Australian of Anglo heritage. She is a senior sociologist of education with 15 years’ teaching experience in the tertiary sector, research and teaching experience across a diversity of social contexts, and institutional awards for teaching excellence. Sam's research includes poststructural and posthumanist orientations to race and whiteness as well as critical explorations of gender, violence, class, and culturally responsive schooling. As a key body of work, Sam has explored cultural reproductions of race in remote Aboriginal schools using white governmentality as a conceptual lens and has extended this work to explore decoloniality in university-led short-term study abroad. Sam has most recently engaged in research on anti-racism activism amongst Australian pre-service teachers as well as countering violent extremism in Australian schools. She is co-convenor of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Sociology of Education Special Interest Group (SIG), and co-convenes a decoloniality reading group with colleagues from the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI). Sam's work is ultimately about questioning entrenched norms and advancing justice through education.