Maddie Neufeld

visiting assistant professor

Office: Palamountain Hall 218
Phone: 518-580-5144
E-mail: mneufeld@skidmore.edu

Education:

• EdD, Curriculum & Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University

  MA, Secondary Inclusive Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

  BA, American Studies, Wesleyan University

Maddie Neufeld is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College where she focuses on what it means to teach inclusively. Before coming to Skidmore, Maddie was an Instructor in the Elementary Inclusive Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum & Teaching. Her research centers on the ways that whiteness and ableism haunt teaching; inclusive education; teacher education for inclusive education; and post qualitative methodologies. Her dissertation won “The Outstanding Qualitative Research Dissertation Award” from the AERA Qualitative Research Special Interest Group. Maddie grew up in New York City and is a former NYCPS special education teacher. She is committed to sustaining teachers and teaching rooted in practices of freedom.

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Inclusive Education
  Teacher Education for Inclusive Education
  Critical Disability Studies
  DisCrit
  Critical Special Education
  Whiteness & Teaching
  Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education
  Abolitionist Teaching
  Black Studies; Affect Studies
  Critical Posthumanism
  Hauntology
  Post-qualitative Inquiry
  Poetic Inquiry

 

Courses Taught:

• ED 213: Critical Foundations of Special Education: Disability, Equity & Inclusion
  ED 200: Child Development and Learning
  ED 375: Senior Thesis in Education Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles:

• Neufeld, M.,Najib, A. & Naraian, S. (2025). Refusal as a practice of teaching inclusively. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 34(2), 305-323.

  Neufeld, M. & Naraian, S. (2024). Getting lost with artifacts in teacher inquiry. Qualitative Research, 25(6), 1216-1234.

  Naraian, S. Neufeld, M.& Bae, Y. (2024). Feeling inclusion: Becoming-with in narrative inquiry with an inclusive educator. Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education, 2(1), 6.

  Neufeld, M. (2021). Dreaming in crisis. Prospects Comparative Journal of Curriculum, Learning and Assessment, 51(1-3), 1-10. 

Book Chapters:

• Neufeld, M. & Lesko, N. (2026). Haunted teaching time: Ghostly residue in the after hours. In R. Laursen & M. Madsen (Eds.), Governing Education Through Teaching and Learning Time. Springer.
• Newhouse, K. & Neufeld, M.(2025). Tangled threads and sideways ruptures: What we learned, what we already knew about disability, the pandemic, and schooling. In C. B. Powers & N. Lawton-Stickler (Eds.), Uncovering Possible: Pedagogies for Apocalyptic Times. Vernon Press.
• Neufeld, M.(2025). Making sense through letter writing. In J. R. Wolgemuth, K. Guyotte & S. Shelton (Eds.), Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data! (pp. 121-123). Taylor & Francis. 

Recent Conference Presentations:

• “Affective Cunning: Curriculum with/in Relational Networks of Gender, Knowledge, and Violence," American Education Research Association, Denver, CO, April 2025.
• “Speculating into the Hauntings of Whiteness in Teaching Through Shadow Poems,” American Education Research Association, Denver, CO, April 2025.
• “Refusal as a Praxis of Teaching Inclusively,” American Education Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2024.
• “Travel(ing) Tales of Teaching-Learning: Speculative practices for thinking/writing-with," American Education Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2024.
• “Remembering to feel: Teaching and narrating without boundaries” American Educational Studies Association, Louisville, KY, November 2023.
• “Designing Equitable and Inclusive Learning Experiences: Exploring UDL and CRSE Framework” Reimagining Education Summer Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, July 2023.