Title/s: Full Professor
Specialty Area: Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, International Higher Education
Office #: Lewis Towers 1028B, WTC
Phone: 312.915.6616
Email: tjules@luc.edu
CV Link: /media/lucedu/education/faculty/cv/Jules-CV-Spring15.pdf
External Webpage: https://freshedpodcast.com/tavisjules/
Dr. tavis d. jules is a Full Professor in Cultural and Educational Policy & International Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago, specifically focusing on Comparative and International Education and International Higher Education. He was born in Guyana. He has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses at Loyola. He received his MA (2004) in International Educational Development, specializing in Peace Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University. He then received both an EdM (2005) and EdD (2008) in International Educational Development—International Educational Policy Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University. Before arriving at Loyola, Dr. Jules held a variety of positions internationally. From 2009-2011 he worked as the Head of Knowledge and Communication for the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), where he was responsible for developing fundraising, communication, marketing, and education programs. He also worked as a curriculum specialist (2008-2009) for Freedom House in New York, New York, where he wrote, coordinated, and edited an online curriculum manual and learning portal for educators teaching about democracy and freedom in Iran.
His vast professional and acaemix experiences have led to research interests in regionalism and governance, transitory spaces, and policy challenges in small island developing states (SIDS). His research is motivated by his personal commitment to seeking to contribute valuable and innovative insights to the study of comparative and international education by explaining how disruptive pressures (economic and political) across different levels (national, regional, and global) influence and impact national educational developments. His research agenda is cross-disciplinary (Education and International Relations) and concentrates on investigating the ‘processes’ through which disruptive pressures on national education systems incubate, evolve, mature, and coalesce. His second research strand identifies how disruptive political processes that are endogenous and spontaneous lead to different transition or transtological reform moments in national educational systems. This emphasis can be found in my work on post-socialism and post-authoritarian spaces. He is the immediate past-President of the Caribbean Studies Association, Book and Media Reviews Editor for the Comparative Education Review, an International Institute of Islamic Thought Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at NORRAG. He has authored, co-authored, and edited over 50 refereed articles and book chapters, three monographs, and seven edited books. He is an International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Research Fellow, becoming the first non-Arab speaker to secure this prestigious fellowship. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tunis in Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis, Tunisia, and Associate Editor of Educational Research and Reviews. He has been awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, from the School of Education, Loyola University Chicago.