I am a life-long educator with twenty-five years of experience.  I first began as a high school teacher in the US and Honduras.  I am a University Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, I co-coordinate the MPhil in Knowledge, Power & Politics, and I also co-coordinate a strategic international partnership, the Transnational Anti-racism in Education Research & Exchange Programme, between Cambridge, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the State University of Bahia.

My research focuses on understanding corporate power and its influence on education and society.  I am currently writing the book, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Influences Education around the World, supported by Leverhulme Trust and the Spencer Foundation.  I am also 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.  My research has also been funded by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, Fulbright Hays, and Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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

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

I am 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 held academic appointments 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.