Toby Jenkins

Toby S. Jenkins, Ph.D. serves as Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Graduate School at the University of South Carolina. She is also a tenured Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies within the College of Education. Additionally, Jenkins has served as Director of the Museum of Education, an aesthetic research center within the College of Education for the past five years. Her scholarship focuses on the ways that culture is used as a politic of social survival, a tool of social change, and a transformative space of critical and creative pedagogy. She is also interested in how educational institutions have served as both spaces of liberation and oppression for minoritized communities.