Jake Burdick is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at Purdue University, where he teaches courses in curriculum theory, multicultural education, and qualitative inquiry. Jake’s research centers on public pedagogy, deepening conceptualizations of education via extra-institutional studies, and theorizing activism as a pedagogical practice. Jake is the co-editor of the Handbook of Public Pedagogy(Routledge), Complicated Conversations and Confirmed Commitments: Revitalizing Education for Democracy(Educators International Press), Problematizing Public Pedagogy (Routledge), and the forthcoming New Henry Giroux Reader (Myers Education Press). He has published work in Qualitative Inquiry, Curriculum Inquiry, Review of Research in Education, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.