Rachel Elizabeth Fish

Rachel Fish is an Associate Professor of Education & Child Study at Smith College. Previously, she served as associate professor at NYU and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Notre Dame's Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. Her work uses mixed methods to analyze educational inequality at intersections of disability, race, and gender.

• Ph.D. in Sociology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A.T. in Special Education - Western New Mexico University
• A.B. in Sociology - Bryn Mawr College

Her research examines:
• Experimental analysis of disability/giftedness construction
• Intersectional stratification in education
• Teacher-family-administrator power dynamics

Article trends reveal consistent focus on:
- Racial disproportionality in special education
- Medicalization of learning challenges
- Institutional drivers of educational inequality

Scientific awards include funding from:

• Spencer Foundation
• National Academy of Education
• William T Grant Foundation
• IES
• NSF

At Smith, she teaches courses integrating:
• Critical disability studies
• Educational stratification
• Methods for inclusive schools