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Marcus Weaver-Hightower is professor and program leader of the Foundations of Education program at Virginia Tech, where he teaches graduate courses in gender and education, the sociology of education, and qualitative research. He was formerly professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. He is a former Fulbright scholar to Australia, where he conducted a year-long study of the development and implementation of the world’s first federal-level policy on the education of boys. Previous to this, he taught high school English and coached girls’ soccer in Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA. His research interests include the politics of boys’ education, masculinity studies, the politics of food, the use of comics and graphic novels in qualitative research and classrooms, literacy studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of The Politics of Policy in Boys’ Education: Getting Boys “Right” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), How to Write Qualitative Research (2019), Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and How to Craft Autoethnography (Routledge, 2025). He was co-editor of The Problem with Boys’ Education: Beyond the Backlash (Routledge, 2009), School Food Politics: The Complex Ecologies of Hunger and Feeding in Schools Around the World (Peter Lang, 2011), Leaders in Gender and Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits (Sense Publishers, 2013), and The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education (2020). His scholarly articles have appeared in Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, Teachers College Record, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Gender and Education, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, among others. His work has been awarded the 2013 Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research from the National Council on Family Relations as well as a Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.