Degrees

  • PhD - University of Wisconsin; Madison, WI
  • MAT in English - University of Chicago; Chicago, IL
  • BA - University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, IL

Academic and Professional Highlights

Awards

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Honorary Fellow, 2011-2012
  • Vilas Travel Fellowship Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison - 2007
  • Travel Fellowship Award, 2007
  • FLAS Summer Fellowship: Advanced Study of Italian in Rome, 2005
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spencer Fellow, 2003-2005
  • University of Chicago, Tuition Scholarship, 1995
  • University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, James Scholar Award, 1993

Research Areas

  • Comparative Education
  • Curriculum Theory

Publications:

  • Miskovic, M. & Kowalczyk, J. A. (2023). Back to the Basics: Teaching research online in the time of Covid-19 pandemic. In, Nind, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods. Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Abduljabbar, J. & Kowalczyk, J. A. (2022). Assembling Saudi al-Nahda through Saudi women. In, W. Zhao, T. Popkewitz, & T. Autio (Eds.), Historicizing curriculum knowledge translation on a global landscape. Routledge.

  • Kowalczyk, J. A., (Guest Editor). (2018). Introduction to Special Issue: Schools, risk and integration: Responding to the EU/refugee crisis. European Education 50 (1).

  • Sobe, N. W. & Kowalczyk, J. A. (2018). Context, Entanglement, and Assemblage as matters of concern in comparative education research. World Yearbook of Education 2018 (pp. 197-204). Routledge Press.

  • Kowalczyk, J. A. (2016). Homo pontem: Teachers as bridges to a multicultural Italy. Paedagogica Historica, LII (V), 438-452.

  • Kowalczyk, J. A. (2015). Transgression as democratic convivenza: An analysis of Italian school policy and the discourse of integration. In T. S. Popkewitz (Ed.) The "Reason" of Schooling. Historicizing curriculum studies, pedagogy, and teacher education (pp. 169-183). Routledge Press.

  • Kowalczyk, J. A. (2014). Nationalizing Interculturalism: Italian Cosmopolitanism and Intercultural School Policies to Integrate Immigrant Students. In M. A. Pereyra & B. F. Franklin, (Eds.), Systems of reason and the politics of schooling: Alternative studies on school reforms and sciences of education in the tradition of Thomas S. Popkewitz (pp. 277-298). Routledge Press.

  • Sobe, N. W. & Kowalczyk, J. A. (2013). Exploding the cube: Revisioning "Context" in the field of comparative education. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 17 (1), 6-12.

  • Kowalczyk, J. A. (2015). Transgression as democratic convivenza: An analysis of Italian school policy and the discourse of integration. In T. S. Popkewitz (Ed.) The "reason" of schooling. Historicizing curriculum studies, pedagogy, and teacher education (pp. 169-183). Routledge Press.

  • Sobe, N. W. & Kowalczyk, J. A. (2012). The problem of context in comparative education research. ECPS: Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (6) December 2012: Special Issues on Educational Research: Essays on Procedures, Methods, Instruments, Part I. ( http://www.ledonline.it/ECPS-Journal/ )

Presentations:

  • Universita' degli Studi di Torino - Seminario March 8, 2022: Invited Speaker

  • Universita' degli Studi di Genova - Scuola di Scienze Sociale - Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione - Seminario June 2021: Invited Speaker

  • International Business Week - ESTICE/ESPAS (France), Universidad Catolica De Santa Fe (Argentina), Concordia University Chicago: Invited Speaker:

  • American Education Research Association Conference - San Francisco, CA - April 2020:

  • Association of Lutheran College Faculties - Springfield, OH - September 2019: Co-presented with Dr. Jenna Nelson

  • Comparative & International Education Society: San Francisco, CA - April 2019: Roundtable- Global Migration: biopolitics, interruptions, and trends in theory and method:

  • University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign- March 2018: Roundtable on Teacher Education for Cross-cultural Understanding. Invited as part of a 5-member roundtable funded by a EU Center's Title VI grant.

  • Comparative & International Education Society - Mexico City, Mexico - March 2018: Panel Chair of Post-Map Migration in Comparative and International Education Research -

  • Association of Lutheran College Faculties - Thousand Oaks, CA - September 2017; Co-presented with Drs. Yurimi Grigsby and Michael Wannah:

  • Comparative & International Education Society - Atlanta, GA - March 2017: Co-presented with M. Kahn & Dr. M. Larsen -