Tiago Bittencourt

Tiago Bittencourt, with a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Organization Leadership and Policy Development with a concentration in Comparative and International Development Education, currently serves as a professor in the Department of Education at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Specializing in education policy and research methods, his research agenda focuses on questions of justice, equity, and belonging in education. He explores the cultural underpinnings of class inequality, investigates the impact of post-neoliberal pushbacks on globalization and international education providers like the International Baccalaureate, and examines the production of knowledge about belonging in diverse higher educational settings. His research contributions can be found in prestigious academic journals such as Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.