Gabriel Huddleston

Gabriel Huddleston, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Counseling, Societal Change, and Inquiry in the College of Education at Texas Christian University (TCU). He is also the director of the Center for Public Education and Community Engagement, one of three research centers and institutes housed in the College of Education. Additionally, he is Affiliated Faculty with both the Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) departments. In 2018, Gabe collaborated with other TCU CRES scholars to design a K-12 social studies curriculum overlay focusing on Latinx cultures and histories. He teaches classes in curriculum studies, qualitative inquiry, teacher education, and a Deconstructing Disney class for the John V. Roach Honors College. His work in curriculum studies utilizes a Cultural Studies theoretical framework within qualitative research to examine the intersections between schools and society, with a particular focus on the relationship between neoliberal education reform and teachers. His research interests also include popular culture, spatial theory, new materialism, and postcolonial studies. Gabriel has published in several journals. Additionally, he has co-authored several entries in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education regarding Curriculum Theory/Studies. Gabe has actively participated in the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual conference from 2012 to 2023. In 2020, he received the Critical Issues in Curriculum Studies and Cultural Studies SIG Early Career Scholars Award and was inducted into the Professors of Curriculum. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT), during which time he also acted as the Program Chair and co-organizer for JCT's annual conference, The Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice.