Eve L. Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. She is a qualitative sociologist of education whose work is centered around two primary questions: First, how do racism and other large-scale structures of social inequality impact the everyday lives and experiences of young people? Secondly, how can K-12 public school systems serve to interrupt or perpetuate these social problems, and what role can educators, policymakers, families, community members, and young people themselves play in understanding, acknowledging, and disrupting them? Professor Ewing's scholarship, community work, and classroom teaching are aimed at expanding the ways that urban school stakeholders, other researchers, and the broader public can be equipped to understand, respond to, and ultimately dismantle white supremacy, and to make school systems liberatory institutions rather than oppressive ones.

Professor Ewing's book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She also writes in other genres for broad audiences; she is author of the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919 and writes the Ironheart series for Marvel Comics. Her work has appeared in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation,The Washington Post, and The New Republic. 

She is a Faculty Affiliate at UChicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Ewing has collaborated with the Gray Center in numerous ways, including Loose Machinary: A Symposium on the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (co-organized with John Clegg (Uchicago), curating the Winter 2019 season of Cinema 53, and contributing her poetry to the inaugural issue of Portable Gray.