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My studies are concerned with the political and cultural politics of education knowledge and its comparative reason. These studies view schooling and research as practices creating kinds of people (e.g., the citizen, the learner, the child left behind) that distribute differences (the achievement gap) to exclude and abject.

Recent studies focus on the impracticality of practical research for enacting its social commitments; examining historically current curriculum, teacher education, and international assessments as generating phantasmagrams that affectively differentiate potentialities about societies and people.

My current research centers on the political sociology of scientific knowledge in international student performance assessments; the post-World War II mobilizations of social and education sciences; and teacher education. The research includes historical, ethnographic, and comparative studies in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the United