Noah Karvelis is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Previously, he worked as a K-8 music teacher and community organizer in Phoenix, Arizona. While teaching in Phoenix, Noah co-founded the organization Arizona Educators United which, alongside the state union, led the 2018 Arizona RedForEd movement and teacher strike. 

Noah currently teaches courses on the foundations of education and culturally responsive pedagogy. His research is interested in pedagogical and activist efforts to enact equity and social justice in education. This work utilizes a postfoundational approach to study the ways these efforts are constructed epistemologically and historically, seeking to generate new understandings and possibilities.  

Noah's research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and books including Critical Education, Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, Berkeley Review of Education, Music Educator's Journal, HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education, TOPICS for Music Education Praxis, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, The Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education, and General Music Today as well as at national and international conferences. His writing on organizing and social movements has appeared in publications such as Rethinking Schools, TruthOut, and Jacobin.

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