Noah Karvelis is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Previously, he was a K-8 music teacher in Phoenix, Arizona where he was involved in several education activism and reform efforts including co-founding the organization Arizona Educators United which led the Arizona RedForEd movement and teacher strike. 

Noah's research builds upon these experiences by studying the politics, histories, and ideologies of education reform. His work focuses on understanding teachers as political actors and analyzing the ways taken-for-granted reforms construct inequity and difference in schools. 

Noah's research appears in journals and edited books including Critical Education, Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, Teacher Unions & Social Justice, and Berkeley Review of Education.