Graham B . Slater

Graham B. Slater is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Ph.D. in Education, Culture, and Society from the University of Utah where he received several research awards, including the Marriner S. Eccles Fellowship in Political Economy. Additionally, he holds an M.A. in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder and a B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Drawing on perspectives from critical theory, cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy, he studies the impact of changes in political economy, cultural politics, policy, ecology, and technology on education and society. His first book, Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education, was published by Routledge in 2024.

The author of over twenty-five publications, his research has been published in international journals in critical studies of education and social and cultural theory, including: British Journal of Sociology of Education; Critical Education; Cultural Politics; Cultural Studies; Educational Philosophy & Theory; Policy Futures in Education; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Journal of Education Policy; and Educational Studies.

He has also contributed to major handbooks in education, including the Handbook of Critical Approaches to the Politics and Policy of Education (2022), and the Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform (2018). In 2017, he co-edited the volume Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) and has written commentary on the politics of education for Truthout.

Currently, he is Associate Editor of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.