Christopher Lubienski

Indiana University

Professor

Christopher Lubienski is a professor of education policy and Director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. He is also a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and a Fellow at the National Education Policy Center. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Waikato University in New Zealand, and a visiting scholar at Monash University and the University of New South Wales in Australia, at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and was Sir Walter Murdoch Visiting Professor at Murdoch University in Australia. His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking. After earning a PhD in education policy and social analysis at Michigan State University under David Labaree, Lubienski held post-doctoral fellowships with the National Academy of Education and the Advanced Studies Program at Brown University. Lubienski is ranked in the top 2% of scientists in all fields world-wide by Stanford/Elsevier, and has been listed every year in Education Week's annual ranking of most influential university-based education scholars. His work has been funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Spencer Foundation. Lubienski has been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and his work has been featured in the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC and CBS.