Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
Education
Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction (minor in Educational Policy Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.  Michael W. Apple, advisor.

M.Ed., English Education, Vanderbilt University, 2000. David Bloome, advisor.

B.A., English, Winthrop University, 1995.

Professional Employment

Professor. School of Education, Foundations of Education program. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.  August 2020 to present.

Professor. Department of Educational Foundations and Research. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. August 2014 to August 2020. (Visiting Assistant Professor, 2004-2006; Assistant Professor, 2006-2010; Associate Professor, 2010-2014)

Department Chair. Department of Educational Foundations and Research. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. August 2013 to June 2017.  

Interim Chair. Higher Education Program of the Department of Educational Leadership. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. August 2016 to June 2017.  

Interim Director.  Bureau of Education Services and Applied Research (BESAR).  University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.  November 2014 to September 2015.  

Visiting Associate Professor (sabbatical). Department of Educational Studies. University of South Carolina. August 2012 to May 2013.

English Teacher, grades 9, 10, and 11. Goose Creek High School, Goose Creek, South Carolina.  September 1995 to June 1998, Summers of 1996 and 1999.

Publications
Books

• Niemi, N. S. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (In press). The Wiley handbook of gender equity in higher education. Wiley Blackwell.
• (2019). How to write qualitative research. Routledge.
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Skelton, C. (Eds.) (2013). Leaders in gender and education: Intellectual self-portraits. Sense Publishers.
• Robert, S. A. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (Eds.). (2011). School food politics: The complex ecologies of hunger and feeding in schools around the world. Peter Lang. (peer reviewed)
• Martino, W., Kehler, M., & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (Eds.). (2009). The problem with boys’ education: Beyond the backlash. Routledge.
• (2008). The politics of policy in boys’ education: Getting boys “Right.”  Palgrave Macmillan. 

Articles 

• Kuttner, P. J., Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Sousanis, N. (2020). Comics-based research: The affordances of comics for research across disciplines. Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120918845
• (2017). Losing Thomas and Ella: A father’s story (A research comic).  Journal of Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1007/s10912-015-9359-z. 
• Stupnisky, R. H., Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Kartoshkina, Y. (2015). Exploring and testing predictors of new faculty success: A mixed method study. Studies in Higher Education, 40(2), 368-390. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2013.842220. 
• Weaver-Hightower, R. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2014). Letter from South Africa. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 2 (new series), 75-84.
• (2014). A mixed methods approach for identifying influence on public policy. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8(2), 115-138. doi: 10.1177/1558689813490996. (online first in 2013). 
• (2012). Waltzing Matilda: An autoethnography of a father’s stillbirth. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 41, 462-491.
  
• Lingard, B., Mills, M., & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2012). Interrogating recuperative masculinity politics in schooling. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16(4), 407-421. 
• (2011). Why education researchers should take school food seriously. Educational Researcher, 40(1), 15-21. 
• (2011). Male preservice teachers and discouragement from teaching. Journal of Men’s Studies, 19(2), 97-115. 
• (2010). Oatmeal facials and sock wrestling: The promises and perils of extracurricular programs to ‘fix’ boys’ education.  Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 31(5), 683-697. 
• (2010). Using action research to challenge stereotypes: A case study of boys’ education work in Australia. Action Research, 8, 333-356. 
• (2010, May/June). Where the guys are: How concerned should we be about men in higher education? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. (Invited) [Reprinted 28 May 2010 by the Tomorrow’s Professor listserv]
• (2008). An ecology metaphor for educational policy analysis: A call to complexity. Educational Researcher, 37 (3), 153-167. 
• (2008). Inventing the “all-American boy”: A case study of the capture of boys’ issues by conservative groups. Men and Masculinities, 10 (3), 267-295. 
• (2005). Dare the school build a new education for boys? Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=11743 (Invited)
• (2003). The “boy turn” in research on gender and education. Review of Educational Research, 73 (4), 471-498. 
• (2003). Crossing the divide: Bridging the disjunctures between theoretically oriented and practice-oriented literature about masculinity and boys at school. Gender and Education 15 (4), 407-423. 
• (2002).  The gender of terror and heroes? Interrogating men and masculinity after September 11, 2001. Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=11012 

Book Chapters (*equal contributions with arranged authorships)

• (2018). Losing Thomas and Ella: A father’s story (A research comic) [reprint]. In Graphic Reproduction! University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.
• (2019). Analyzing self and other in autoethnography: Telling secrets about one’s stillborn child. In A. Humble & E. Radina (Eds.), Moving beyond ‘themes emerged’: Real stories of how qualitative data analysis happens. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
• *Healy, G., Miller, E., and Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2019). Dialogue on arts-based research. In A. Humble & E. Radina (Eds.), Moving beyond ‘themes emerged’: Real stories of how qualitative data analysis happens. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
• (2018). Foreword. In S. Rice & A. G. Rud (Eds.), Educational dimensions of school lunch: Critical Perspectives. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 
• *Kuttner, P., Sousanis, N., & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2017). How to draw comics the scholarly way: Creating comics-based research in the academy (pp. 396-422). In Leavy, P. (ed.), Handbook of arts-based research.  New York, NY: Guilford Press. 
• (2013). Sequential art for qualitative research: Making comics to make meaning of the social world. In C. Syma & R. Weiner (eds.), Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art (pp. 260-273). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company. (peer reviewed)
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B. & Skelton, C. (2013). An introduction to some leaders in gender and education. In M. B. Weaver-Hightower & C. Skelton (Eds.), Leaders in gender and education: Intellectual self-portraits (pp. 1-13). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• (2013). Waltzing Matilda: An autoethnography of a father’s stillbirth [reprint].  In P. Sikes (Ed.), Autoethnography (vol. 4). London: Sage.
• (2011). Fixing up lunch ladies, dinner ladies and canteen managers: Cases of school food reform in the United States, England and Australia. In S. A. Robert & M. B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.), School food politics: The complex ecology of hunger and feeding in schools around the world (pp. 46-70). New York, NY: Peter Lang. (peer reviewed)
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B. & Robert, S. A. (2011). School food politics. In S. A. Robert & M. B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.), School food politics: The complex ecology of hunger and feeding in schools around the world (pp. 1-22). New York, NY: Peter Lang. (peer reviewed)
• Robert, S. A. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2011). Healthier horizons. In S. A. Robert & M. B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.), School food politics: The complex ecology of hunger and feeding in schools around the world (pp. 201-208). New York, NY: Peter Lang. (peer reviewed)
• (2009). Issues of boys’ education in the United States: Diffuse contexts and futures. In W. Martino, M. Kehler, & M. B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.) The problem with boys’ education: Beyond the backlash (pp. 1-35). New York: Routledge.
• (2009). Masculinity and education. In Apple, M. W., Au, W., & Gandin, L. A. (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of critical education (pp. 163-176). New York: Routledge. 
• (2008). Action Research in the Service of Challenging Myths and Stereotypes: A Case Study of Boys’ Education Work in Australia. In Kožuh, B., Kahn, R., and Kozłowska, A. (Eds.), The Practical Science of Society (proceedings of the International Conference on Practical Science in Education and the Social Sciences). Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota College of Education and Human Development.
• (2007). The boy problem [essay].  In Bank, B. J. (Ed.), Gender and education: An encyclopedia (pp. 717-722).  Westport, CT: Praeger. 
• (2002).  The truth about grooms (Or, how to tell those tuxedoed men apart).  In F. Tochon (Ed.) The foreign self: Truth telling as educational inquiry (pp. 201-217). Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.

Essay Reviews, Book Reviews, Short Commentaries, and Encyclopedia Entries

• (2015). When boys become boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity [book review]. Gender & Society, 29(5), 751-753. doi: 10.1177/0891243214560401 (invited; international)
• (2014). Sequential art [invited feature]. In M. Savin-Baden & K. Wimpenny (Eds.), A practical guide to arts-related research (pp. 56-57, 71). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.
• (2014). Illuminating boys, teachers, and their working relationships [review of Reichert & Hawley’s I can learn from you: Boys as relational learners].  Sex Roles, 71, 275-277. doi: 10.1007/s11199-014-0405-5 (invited; international)
• (2013-2014). The Finland Phenomenon [documentary film review]. European Education, 45(4), 93-95. (invited; international)
• (2013). Sequential art in qualitative research [invited “Researcher Reflection” feature]. M. Savin-Baden & C. Major (Eds.), Qualitative Research: The essential guide to theory and practice (pp. 516-517). New York: Routledge. 
• (2012). Masculinities in Higher Education [book review]. Teachers College Record. Retrieved from http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=16855 (invited; international journal)
• (2012, February 1). The case for partisanship in rewriting ESEA. Education Week. (national newspaper)
• (2011). Exploring the Bias: Gender and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools by E. Page & J. Jha. [Book review]. Gender & Education, 23(2), 229-230.
• (2010). Erector sets [encyclopedia entry]. In S. R. Steinberg, M. Kehler, & L. Cornish (Eds). Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• (2010). Tonka toys [encyclopedia entry]. In S. R. Steinberg, M. Kehler, & L. Cornish (Eds). Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• (2009). “Obama’s next school message: Eat your veggies” [commentary essay]. Education Week. Retrieved from http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/10/20/09weaver-hightower.h29.html (National newspaper)
• (2009). Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals, by Brian Luke. [Book review]. Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, 5(1), 249-253. doi: 10.3903/gtp.2009.1.19 (Online journal)
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Apple, M. W. (2008).  Defending liberalism on campus [Essay review of What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? by M. Berube]. Educational Policy, 22, 609-620. (International; peer-reviewed)
• (2007). “Crisis tendencies” [encyclopedia entry]. In M. Flood, J. K. Gardiner, B. Pease, & K. Pringle (Eds.), The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge.   
• (2004). So What’s a Boy?: Addressing Issues of Masculinity and Schooling by Wayne Martino and Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli [book review]. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25 (3), 405-409.
• (2004). “Grooms” [encyclopedia entry]. In M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Eds.) Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.
• (2004). “What about the boys?” [encyclopedia entry]. In M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Eds.) Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.
• (2003). Teenage Boys and High School English by Bruce Pirie [book review]. Teachers College Record, 105 (7), 1244-1247.

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Awards, Honors, Fellowships, and Scholarships

• North Dakota University System Award for Innovative Use of Technology to Improve Student Learning and Success in the Classroom, 2017.
• Research Mentor, VisionKeepers Support Programme, University of South Africa.  Research mentor and faculty exchange for Dr. Mncedisi Maphalala. 2015-2017.
• UND College of Education and Human Development award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship by and Individual Faculty Member, 2014.
• North Dakota Spirit Faculty Achievement Award, 2014.
• Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research (for the article “Waltzing Matilda: An Autoethnography of a Father’s Stillbirth”), National Council on Family Relations, 2013.
• UND Foundation/Thomas J. Clifford Faculty Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching Excellence, 2012.
• UND Foundation/Thomas J. Clifford Award for Departmental Excellence in Teaching, Educational Foundations and Research, 2012.
• Critics Choice Book Award for the book School Food Politics: The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding in Schools Around the World, American Educational Studies Association, 2012
• North Dakota Spirit Faculty Achievement Award, 2009.
• University of North Dakota College of Education and Human Development Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship by an Individual Faculty Member, 2008.
• Fulbright Postgraduate Research Fellowship, Australia, 2003.  Hosted by the University of Queensland.
• University Academic Year Fellowship, Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
• Vilas Welcome Award, Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
• Teacher of the Month.  Goose Creek High School.  December 1996.

Conference Activity Panels Organized

• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Sousanis, N. (Session Organizers) (2017). How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way. American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
• (2013). Making comics as educational research and theory. Session organizer and chair. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
• (2010). School food politics: The complex ecology of food and hunger in schools around the world. Session organizer and chair. American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Papers Presented

• (2019). ​What new qualitative researchers need to know about writing. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL.
• (2018). Making comics as qualitative research. Paper presented at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
• (2017). Private school participation in the National School Lunch Program. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
• (2017). Comics-based research: From the empirical to the panel, a workshop. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
• (2016). From data to comic: Qualitative research using comics. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C..
• (2016). The state of qualitative reliability in mixed methods research. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C..
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B. & Stevick, D. (2015). Using comics and graphic novels in social justice education. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
• (2013). Comics in the narrative/ethnographic moment. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
• (2012). A mixed methods approach to establishing influence on the policy process. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Stupnisky, R. H., Kartoshkina, Y., Obade, M., Weaver-Hightower, M., & Kelsch, A.(2012). Exploring the factors affecting new faculty success: A mixed-methods study. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• (2011). Frontiers of the Male Teacher Debate in the United States. Paper presented at Gender and Education Association International Conference, Exeter, England. 
• (2011). Why educational researchers should take school food seriously. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. 
• (2010). Assessing the uses of sequential art for qualitative research. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
• (2010). Lunch ladies, dinner ladies, and the defense of food as usual in schools. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
• (2009). Oatmeal facials and sock wrestling: The pitfalls of extracurricular programs to ‘fix’ boys’ education. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
• (2009). Neoliberal politics and recuperative masculinities: The case of Australia's boys’ education ‘policies.’ Paper presented at Gender and Education Association International Conference, London, England.
• (2008). Oatmeal facials and sock wrestling: The pitfalls of extracurricular programs to ‘fix’ boys’ education. Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, Savannah, GA.
• (2008). Gender politics and recuperative masculinities: The case of Australia's boys' education crisis. Comparative and International Education Society, New York, NY.
• (2008). Action research for challenging myths and stereotypes: A case study of boys’ education work in Australia. Paper presented at International Conference on Practical Science in Education and the Social Sciences, online conference).
• (2005). Gender and No Child Left Behind: Opportunities and dangers. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  
• (2004). Australian boys’ education policy: Discourse flows and the problems of strategy. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
• (2002). Issues in implementing programs targeted to boys. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. 
• (2002). Educating the groom (Or, how to tell those tuxedoed men apart). Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
• (2002). Issues in constructing curriculum for boys. Paper presented at Students of Education Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin.

As Marcus Hightower

• (2001). Videocamera as artifact: Opportunities for identity and resistance. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.
• (2001). Symbolic violence: The school versus boys. Paper presented at Women’s Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. “”  Spring 2001.
• (2000). Male student teachers and strategies of gender performativity. Poster presented at American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
• (1999). Supernatural and cross-dressing daddies: Transforming the father problem in popular film. Paper presented at Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Research Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
• (1999). Turning daddy into mommy: Solutions to the father problem in popular film. Paper presented at Connections Cultural Studies Conference, Lexington, KY.
• Garner, L. & Hightower, M. B. (1998). Service Learning. Paper presented at Berkeley County Instructional Fair, Goose Creek, SC.
• Hightower, M. B., Garner, L., & Passarello, R. (1997). Alternative assessment in service learning. Paper presented at National Service Learning Conference, Orlando, Florida.  

Panelist

• (2013) Strategies for faculty to manage work and family. Panelist. Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Grand Forks, ND.
• (2010) The Limits of Diversity in Education and Human Development. Co-chair and panelist. Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Grand Forks, ND. 
• (2002) Panelist. Social-Emotional Conference: The Boy Crisis, Madison, Wisconsin.

Discussant

• (2017). “Education Policy and Social Issues: The Balancing Act of Implementing Federal School Food Policy.” Discussion presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
• (2007). Critical perspectives on the "boy crisis" in US schools. Discussant. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Invited Keynotes, Talks, and Workshops

• University of South Florida. Male Student Success Speaker Series, "Masculinity Metrics that Matter: How Universities Might Understand Men and Boys Differently." November 20, 2019. 
• Kelsh, A., Weaver-Hightower, M. B., Zerr, R. University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.  Workshop, "Innovative Pedagogy and Authentic Assessment in US Higher Education." May 24, 2016.
• University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, College of Foreign Languages.  "Using Comics and Graphic Novels in Teaching and Research." May 23, 2016.
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Hunter, C. University of North Dakota Student Affairs Division. Workshop, “Conducting a Basic Focus Group.” March 4, 2016.  
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Hunter, C. North Dakota Department of Health, Comprehensive Cancer Prevention and Control Program. Workshop, “Conducting a Basic Focus Group.” November 13, 2015.  
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Provoking Scholarly Dialogues series, “Pink Slime, Pizza as a Vegetable, and Endless 'Freedom' Fries: School Food Politics in the Global Conservative Moment.” March 6, 2013.
• Invited panelist, World of Education film series, The Finland Phenomenon, University of South Carolina, November 5, 2012.
• Online Teaching Showcase, University of North Dakota. "Online Tools to Supplement Face-to-Face, Intensive Distance Instruction." March 6, 2012. 
• Radical Politics Conference, University of North Dakota chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. “Our Reward Shouldn’t Be ‘in Heaven’: Toward a Progressive Mindset in Education Policy.” November 12, 2008.
• Red River Valley Writing Project, Grand Forks, ND. Workshop keynote and book discussion. “Reaching Boy Readers and Writers.” November 3, 2007. 
• University of North Dakota Science, Engineering and Mathematics for Teachers Grant, Action Research Workshop, Grand Forks, ND.  Workshops on action research for participating faculty and teachers.  December 7, 2006; June 15, 2007; June 21, 2008.
• Australasian Boys’ Education Network, northern Queensland and Tasmania.  Series of keynotes on “the boy turn” and workshops on action research.  June 2006.
• University of North Dakota, Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series.  “Inventing the ‘All-American Boy’: A Toy Catalog and the ‘Boy Crisis.’”  March 6, 2006.
• Open University, Milton Keynes, England. “What About 'What About the Boys?': A Critical Examination of Issues in the Development of Curriculum for Boys.”  June 8, 2001.
• Charleston Area Writing Project, Charleston, South Carolina. Guest lecture.  Summer 1998.

Technical Reports

• (2015). North Dakota literacy achievement.  Prepared for the Missouri River Education Cooperative. Grand Forks, ND: Bureau of Educational Services and Applied Research (BESAR).
• (2015). University Senate surveys on research funding at the University of North Dakota. Prepared for the University of North Dakota University Senate. Grand Forks, ND: Bureau of Educational Services and Applied Research (BESAR).
• (2003). Final report for the Gateway Learning Community’s (Brisbane, Australia) Boys’ Education Lighthouse Grant.

University Teaching Experience
University of North Dakota (all graduate level; underlined courses I created)

• Gender, Sexuality & Education (F 2017 [online], F 2015, F 2013, F 2010, F 2008, F 2007, S 2006, F 2006)
• Sociological Foundations of Education (F 2011, Sm 2008, F 2007, Sm 2005, F 2005, F 2004)
• Qualitative Research Methods (F 2017, F 2011, F 2010 [2 sections], F 2009, F 2008, F 2007, F 2006, F 2005)  
• Advanced Qualitative Research (S 2014 [hybrid], S 2012, S 2010, S 2009, S 2008, S 2007, S 2006) 
• Discourse Analysis (S 2015, S 2012, S 2010)
• Comparative & International Education (S 2016, S 2009)
• Action Research (S 2006, S 2005)
• Mixed Methods Research (S 2011)
• Trends & Issues in Education (F 2016, F 2014, F 2009)
• Special Topic: Boys, Masculinities, & Schooling (S 2008)
• Introduction to Educational Research (S 2007)
• Student teacher supervisor (S 2019)

Vanderbilt University

• Student teacher supervisor (field placements and class section) (S 1999, S 2000).
• Teaching assistant.  Introduction to Education (undergraduate). (F 1998, F 1999).

Select Open Access Instructional Materials (as of December 2019)
Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2015, April 6). How to write up a discourse analysis [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkwfJlNkRvw (70,404 views) 
Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2015, January 28). What is discourse analysis? [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUeA0PEF_g4 (116,082 views) 
Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2014, March 17). Writing tip #3: Writing Qualitative Findings Paragraphs [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKuvwk8x84 (63,060 views) 
Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2014, February 11). Conceptual frameworks (part 1) [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guUdGZWgKdw (83,689 views) 
Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2014, January 17). How to make a pecha kucha [video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WEzM3LFhw (524,244 views) 

Research Experience
Consultant and evaluator.  Gateway Learning Community (Brisbane, Australia).  Boys’ Education Lighthouse School grant-funded project.  2003-2004.
Graduate Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin, 2000-2002. Michael Apple, supervisor.

Grant & Contract Work
Funded
UND College of Education and Human Development Student Technology Allocation Grant.  Funding to purchase a lightboard for online and flipped video production. (Competitive internal). April 2016. $8295.
Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Hunter, C. North Dakota Department of Health, Comprehensive Cancer Prevention and Control Program. Workshop for Healthcare Workers on Conducting Focus Groups. Fall 2015-Spring 2016. $5790.
UND Education and Human Development Mini-Grant.  Travel grant for research on sequential art in qualitative research. Spring 2013. $855. Partially funded ($650).
UND Education and Human Development Mini-Grant.  Travel grant for research on mixed methods design. Spring 2012. $661.
UND Graduate School Summer Professorship. Fall 2010. Grant to conduct research on school food politics and hire a graduate assistant. (Competitive internal). $14,000.
UND Education and Human Development Summer Professorship. Fall 2010. (Competitive internal). $3500. Awarded, but declined.
UND Education and Human Development Mini-Grant.  Travel grant for research on school food politics. Spring 2009. $750.
Faculty Instructional Development Grant. University of North Dakota.  Grant for instructional material purchases.  December 2008.  $1322. Partially Funded ($528).
UND Senate Scholarly Activities Committee New Faculty Scholar Award.  Grant for basic research on the politics of food in schools. (Competitive internal). March 2008. $5,000.
UND Student Technology Fee Grant (co-authored with Steven LeMire).  University of North Dakota. Grant for qualitative research software for graduate courses. (Competitive internal). June 2007. $9094.64.
UND Faculty Instructional Development Grant. University of North Dakota. June 2007.  $1030.
Vilas Travel Grant for International Research.  University of Wisconsin.  Grant for research travel to Australia in March 2005. (Competitive internal). $1500.
Berkeley County Service Learning Mini-Grants.  Spring 1998.  Two awards of $500 each.

Not Funded
Bush Foundation Major Initiatives Grant.  Pre-proposal. Spring 2015. Not selected.
National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Dissertation Improvement Grant. Principal investigator for Bruce Farnsworth's dissertation grant. Spring 2012. $17,992. 
Livescribe Education Grant. Spring 2011. Grant to get five smartpens for use in training qualitative researchers. (Competitive external). $995.75.
University of North Dakota Summer Graduate Research Professorship. Spring 2010. (Competitive internal). $14,000.
National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Spring 2010. $55,000.
National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Salary replacement grant for year of research on the politics of food in schools.  Spring 2009. $55,000.
UND Faculty Research Seed Money Grant.  University of North Dakota.  Grant for basic research on rural schools in North Dakota and Australia. (Competitive internal). December 2007. $29,793. 
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Grant for writing dissertation. Fall 2004. $20,000. 
Co-authored a tender to recast the Australian national educational gender equity policy with Martin Mills, Bob Lingard, Jane Kenway, and others.  Fall 2003.  $68,0055.

Professional Service
Grant Reviewer 
National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES grant program.  February 27-28, 2017. 
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Division of Social Sciences. 2011. 
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2010, 2011.

Editorial Service
Editorial board member. Sex Roles (international; ranked 1 of 41 in women's and gender studies). 2018 to present. 
Editorial advisory board member, Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education book series.  2014 to present. 

Book Peer Reviewer
Sage: 9 proposal or manuscript reviews
Routledge: 4 proposal or manuscript reviews
Bloomsbury: 1 review
Palgrave Macmillan: 1 revie
Rowman & Littlefield: 1 review

Journal Peer Reviewer
Review of Educational Research. 2008 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Reading Research Quarterly. 2010 to present. 7 article manuscripts. (international)
Sociology of Education. 2011 to present. 2 article manuscripts. (international)
American Educational Research Journal. 2010 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international) 
Teachers College Record. 2003 to present. 2 article manuscripts. (international)
Gender and Education. 2003 to present. 5 article manuscripts. (international)
Journal of Mixed Methods Research. 2013 to present. 11 article manuscripts. (international)
Sex Roles. 2015 to present. 8 article manuscripts. (international)
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2008 to present. 8 article manuscripts. (international)
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. 2017 to present.  1 article manuscript. (international)
Men and Masculinities. 2008 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2012 to present.  4 article manuscripts. (international)
Journal of Education Policy. 2012 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Youth and Society. 2009 to present. 3 article manuscripts. (international)
Qualitative Sociology. 2015 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Critical Studies in Education. 2015 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Appetite. 2013 to present. 2 article manuscripts. (international)
Food and Foodways. 2016 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Politics, Groups, and Identities. 2017 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Australian Journal of Education. 2012 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
International Journal of Educational Development. 2014 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Health Education Journal. 2015 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Journal of Homosexuality. 2012 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies. 2013 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
American Journal of Men’s Health. 2007 to present. 2 article manuscripts. (national)
Population Research and Policy Review. 2012 to present. 1 article manuscript (3 readings). (international)
African Journal of Political Science and International Relationships. 2008 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.  2015 to present.  1 article manuscript. (international)
Asia Pacific Journal of Education.  2013 to present.  1 article manuscript. (international)
Asia Pacific Education Review.  2010 to present. 1 article manuscript. (international)
Berkeley Review of Education. 2012 to present. 1 article manuscript. (national)
Education (Basel). 2012  to present. 1 article manuscript.
Teaching & Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Reflective Practice. 2006 to present. 3 article manuscripts. (national)

Conference Reviewing and Service
Roundtable moderator. Michael Apple and the Struggle for Educational Justice conference. Madison, WI. March 9, 2018.
AERA Annual Meeting Program Committee Member. Politics of Education SIG. 2009-2010.
Reviewer. AERA Division L Dissertation Award. 2008.
Reviewer. American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings. Divisions D, G, K, L, multiple SIGs. 2002 to present.
Reviewer. Beyond Boundaries technology conference (Grand Forks, ND). 2006 annual meeting.

External Reviews
Dissertation examiner, Don Sanderson, Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Allan Luke, chair, 2013.
Tenure evaluator, Wichita State University College of Education, 2015. 
Tenure evaluator, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, 2011. 
Tenure evaluator, University of Buffalo Department of Learning and Instruction, 2010.

Select Departmental & University Service
Graduate Director, Educational Foundations and Research, 2013-2014.
Graduate Curriculum Committee, College of Education & Human Development, (Member) 2008 to 2009, 2014 to 2016, (Chair) 2017 to present.
Organizer. Gershman/Ahler Distinguished Lecture Series in Qualitative Research. 2012 to present (annual).
Organizer. Educational Foundations and Research Critical Documentary Film Series. 2005 to present.
New faculty mentor.  Aimee Rogers (Teaching & Learning, 2015-16). Brad Serber (Communications, 2017-18).
Member.  College Reorganization Committee, College of Education & Human Development, 2016-2017.
Member. University Senate Conflict of Interest & Scientific Misconduct Committee.  Fall 2016 to present.
Member. University Registrar Search Committee. 2015-16.
Member, Vice President for Research and Economic Development Advisory Committee for Research Administration, 2015.
Member. University Program Prioritization Taskforce, University of North Dakota. 2014-2015.
Member. University Senate Scholarly Activities Committee. 2009 to 2012. (Vice Chair, 2012)
Member. University Children’s Center Advisory Council (Grand Forks, ND). 2011 to present.
Member.  Senate Student Policy Committee, UND. 2006.
Member on 12 faculty position hiring committees (chair of 2)
Select School & Community Service
Member. Altru Hospital Infant Bereavement Program Advisory Board. 2009 to present.
Volunteer photographer. Altru Hospital Infant Bereavement Program.  2011 to present.
Co-leader.  Phoenix Elementary School Comics Club. 2017.
Volunteer and curriculum advisor.  DREAMS program for boys.  Nehemiah Community Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin.  Fall 2000 to Spring 2001.
Quest academic competition coach.  Public speaking and composition for underclassmen.  Goose Creek High School.  Spring 1997 and 1998.  
Assistant coach.  Varsity girls’ soccer.  Goose Creek High School.  Spring 1997 and 1998.

Professional Memberships
American Education Research Association
American Educational Studies Association
Comics Studies Society
Comparative and International Education Society

Doctoral Advising
Chair

• Bruce Farnsworth (2019). Photography Methods to Understand Rural Resiliency and Environmental Literacy: The Example of Fracking in the Bakken.
• Hind Alghanmi (2018). Female Faculty Perspectives on Blended Learning at Universities in Saudi Arabia.Hamzat Koriko (2018). The Case of the Missing Girl: Exploring Sex-Selective Abortion through Ethnodrama.Tsooane Molapo (2017). Dual-Detachment: The Plight of Young Black Males Alienated from Work and School.
• Rebecca Matinda (2017; awarded posthumously)Erin Kunz (2016). Ecocomposition as Writing Curriculum: An Ecological Approach for Writing Program Administrators and Composition Instructors.
• Jacque Nyenhuis (2016). Political Ideology, Beliefs, and Values as a Framework for Analysis of School Nutrition Preferences.
• Jóri Thordarson (2016). Not Your Business: Pedagogical Lessons of Activist Resistance to Neoliberalism in Canadian Higher Education.
• Jane Schreck (2013). Wendell Berry’s Philosophy of Education: Lessons from Port William.
• Sandra Arnau-Dewar (2011). Exploring the Paths to Homelessness: An Ethnographic Study of How Disability, Educational Achievement, Gender, Foster Care and Poverty Impacted the Lives of Two Towns’ Homeless Shelter Residents.
• Pam Holsinger-Fuchs (2008). College Students as Catalysts for Social Change: A Case Study.

Member

• Susan Walton (2019). Competing by Tweeting: Content Analysis of University Presidents' Tweets.
• Renuka de Silva (2019). Native and Indigenous Women of Hawai'i: Exploring the Importance of Indigenous Narratives and Storytelling to Understand Ancestral Knowledge Systems. 
• Brandon Wild (2019). A Historical Perspective on Aviation Flight Training and Education.
• Teresa Spaeth (2019). A Presidential Leadership Process for Higher Education in Small, Rural Institutions and Settings.
• Maggie Lowery (2019). Principals’ Perspectives Regarding 9-12 Grade Black, Asian, and Latino Males in North Dakota Public Schools.
• Michelle Rackozy (2018). The ACHIEVE Model in Professional Experiences of Information Technology Workers in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study.
• Chad Dahlen (2018). Intergenerational Perspectives on Leadership by Men of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
• Azizah Alogali (2018).  Educational Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia: Experiences of Participants of the Saudi Oxford Program for Educational Leaders.
• Victoria Morrisette (2018). Women Engineering Majors Choice to Stay: A Phenomenological Exploration of Persistence Experiences.
• Debra Jenkins (2018). Parting a Read Sea of Images: An Exploration of Field Dependent-Independent Responses to Minimalist, Pictographic and Infographic Data Displays.
• Christine Job (2017). What Is Teacher Effectiveness? A Case Study of Educator Perceptions in a Midwest Elementary School.
• Lindsey Leker (2017). Contextual Factors Related to Stereotype Threat and Student Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education: A Mixed Methods Study.
• Franklin Sage (2017). Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonizing methodology interwoven into higher education experiences: Autoethnography.
• Paul Cline (2017). Female airline transport pilots: The role of mentoring.
• Elizabeth Becker (2016). Graphic Design Students’ Perceptions of Using Apple iPads to Create Sketches and Promote Idea Generation.
• Benson Bakabaka (2016).  Teacher Perceptions of Facilitated Video Analysis of Instruction in Teacher Professional Development.
• Terri Martin-Parisienne (2016). Exploring the Impact of Self-Determination on the Political Practices of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians: A Critical Content Analysis.
• Laura Parson (2016). Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) in Higher Education from the Perspective of Female Students: An Institutional Ethnography.
• Rebecca Petrik (2016).  Learning to Teach in Elementary Music Methods: An Action Research Study.
• Mildred Biaku (2016). Negotiating Higher Education in the US: Voices of Ghanaian Graduate Students at a Midwestern University.
• Cathy Williams (2015). Examining Openness to Pedagogical Change Among Secondary Mathematics Teachers: Developing and Testing a Structural Model.
• George Atta (2015). Professional Learning Communities: The American Experience and Its Implications for Ghana and Other International School Systems.
• Emmanuel Mensah (2015). Listservs, Learning Communities, and Baby Steps: Rural Educators and Implementing the Common Core in North Dakota.
• Kimberly Becker (2015). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Graduate Students’ Experiences of Plagiarism by Their Professors.
• Jeffrey Lind (2015). Regional Education Associations in North Dakota: Perceptions of REA Directors and School Superintendents.
• Kim Englund (2014). Grade Level Retention: A Comparative Study of Beliefs and Practices in North Dakota and Surrey.
• Mary Fontes (2014). Understanding Somali Woman Refugee Students’ Lives and Program Decisions at Two-Year Colleges: A Narrative Approach.
• Cheri Poitra (2014). A Qualitative Case Study of Parental Perspectives on Education Among a Midwest Indian Reservation and English Traveller Community.
• Rachael Agre (2014). Partnering for Success: The Principals’ Role in Beginning Teacher-Mentor-Principal Relationships.
• Diane Wolter (2012).  Emerging Adults in College: Assessing Expectations and Perceptions.
• Rebecca Gardner (2012). Rhetorical Agency and Survivance: American Indians in College Composition. 
• Wade Forster (2011). How Six Secondary Science Teachers Make Curricular and Pedagogical Decisions: Influencing Factors.
• Carolyn DeLorme (2010). Necessary but Not Sufficient: The North Dakota School Counselor Designate Credential.
• Colleen Johnson (2010). Critical Components of Suicide Prevention Programs for Colleges and Universities: A Delphi Study.
• Sarah Anderson (2010). Factors in Social Skill Acquisition: High School Students with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders in the United States and Norway.
• Elizabeth Hughes (2009). Crucial Conversations: Perceptions of Staff and Patient’s Families of Their Communication in the Intensive Care Unit.
• Lori Kalash (2009). Perspectives of Parents Who Have a Child Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Elizabeth Bjerke (2009). Utilizing Pre-entry Attributes and Academic Integration to Predict Student Academic Success and Persistence to the Second Year for Students in a Collegiate Aviation Program.
• Louella Lofranco (2009). The Meaning of Development for Filipinos by Filipinos in Diaspora: Rhetorical Vision in Participatory Communication. (2010 UND Distinguished Dissertation award)
• Linda Rains (2009). Remote Rural Students' Perceptions of Their Collegiate Transition Experience.
• Margaret Tweten (2008). Community Capitals: Measuring the Socioeconomics of a Rural Community.
• Joan Aus (2008). Teaching Practices and Challenges: A Description of Monolingual English Language Learner Teachers’ Instructional Practices in Grades One Through Six.
• Meghan Salyers (2008). A Meta-Analysis of Adolescent Rampage Shootings and the Potential Interconnectivity to Gifted/Talented Children with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders.
• Kim Cousins (2008). Organizational Change in Higher Education: The Impact of Increasing International Enrollment on Student Services.
• Dan T. Jensen (2008). Catholic Identity and Mission in Post Ex Corde Ecclesiae Catholic Higher Education: The Perceptions and Experiences of Lay Faculty at a Jesuit University.

Master’s Advising
Advisor
Daniel Wehr (2011). Teaching Photography for a Museum Field Trip: A Curriculum (scholarly project).

Media

• Quoted in “Most colleges have more women than men. Here’s how to buck that trend” by Audrey Williams June, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 29, 2019. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Most-Colleges-Have-More-Women/246777
• Quoted in “Why lunch, exercise, sleep, and air quality matter at school” by Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week, March 12, 2019.  https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/03/13/why-lunch-exercise-sleep-and-air-quality.html  
• “Wither the ‘boy turn’?” Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, July 11, 2018. http://www.guardian.co.tt/letters/2018-07-11/whither-‘boy-turn’
• “Not just for kids: UND Education professor finds comics and graphic novels can help young and old alike learn.” UND Today, October 16, 2017. http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2017/10/not-just-for-kids/
• “New window on teaching: Education Professor Marcus Weaver-Hightower shows off innovative ‘lightboard’ studio, as latest recipient of NDUS faculty award for technology in the classroom.”  UND Today, March 30, 2017. http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2017/03/new-window-on-teaching/
• “UND Professor: Don’t Build Walls Around North Dakota Universities” [Opinion-Editorial]. Grand Forks Herald, February 16, 2017.  http://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/op-ed-columns/4219041-und-professor-dont-build-walls-around-north-dakota-universities
• “Bereaved parents come together at Altru memorial service,” WDAZ-TV, Grand Forks and Fargo, ND, August 11, 2015. http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/3815897-bereaved-parents-come-together-altru-memorial-service
• “A new nature explore playground in works for Grand Forks,” WDAZ-TV, Grand Forks and Fargo, ND, June 6, 2015. http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/3760645-new-nature-explore-playground-works-grand-forks
• "Faculty not happy with influence in decisions" by Anna Burleson, Grand Forks Herald, May 4, 2015, A1, A5.  Summarizes a survey I conducted on faculty attitudes. 
• Quoted in “Public Schools Outperform Private Schools, Book Says” by Holly Yettick, Education Week, May 23, 2014, available from http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/05/14/31publicprivate.h33.html
• “Brain Food,” Studio 1 (Television episode segment), December 8, 2011, available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idHCH1wQg1A  
• “Face to Face with . . . Marcus Weaver-Hightower,” Susanne Nadeau, Grand Forks Herald, February 1, 2009, A3. 
• “Waltzing Matilda” was featured in a podcast by Sage, 2013. http://jce.sagepub.com/site/misc/Index/Podcasts.xhtml