I am a life-long educator with twenty-five of experience.  I first began as a high school teacher in the US and Honduras. 

My research and teaching focus on understanding and influencing global education and development policies and practices to create more just futures. 

I am the author of The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development (University of California Press 2018), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Sara A. Whaley Prize.  

I am currently writing the monograph, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Shapes Education around the World, with support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024-2025). 

My academic writing has been published in scholarly journals, such as Educational Researcher, Journal of Education Policy, Race, Ethnicity & Education, Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Globalisation, Education & Societies, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and International Journal of Education Development.

I have written essays for The New Yorker, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post based on my research. I have also appeared on BBC’s Business Daily, NPR’s Marketplace, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time, and Northeast Public Radio’s 51%.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, Fulbright Hays, and Wenner-Gren Foundation.

I am a University Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.  At Cambridge, I co-coordinate the MPhil in Knowledge, Power & Politics, and I also co-coordinate a strategic international partnership between Cambridge, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the State University of Bahia, the Transnational Anti-racism in Education Research & Exchange Programme, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES).

I am also an editor of Feminist Studies, the first scholarly journal in the field of gender, feminist, and women’s studies in the U.S. 

I have previously taught at the University of Glasgow, Stanford University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society (now Othering & Belonging Institute) at University of California, Berkeley.  I received my Ph.D. (2012) from the Social and Cultural Studies Program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Gender & Women’s Studies. I have an MA in Curriculum & Teaching from Michigan State University, and a BS in Sociology and Human & Organizational Development, with a minor in African American & Diaspora Studies, from Vanderbilt University

To contact me, please write to kjm78@cam.ac.uk or fill out the information below.