Marcus Weaver-Hightower is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota (USA), where he teaches graduate courses in gender and education, the sociology of education, and qualitative research. He is a former Fulbright scholar to Australia, where he conducted a year-long study of the development and implementation of the first federal-level policy on the education of boys (which is detailed in The Politics of Policy in Boys' Education). 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 concerns, masculinity in education, the politics of food, literacy, qualitative and action research, and cultural studies. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Gender and Education, among others. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Grand Forks, North Dakota.