Patricia K. Kubow is an Associate Professor in Educational Foundations and Inquiry at Bowling Green State University. Both her teaching and scholarship are focused on comparative and international education and democratic education. Patricia has been a member of CIES since 1995 and has given presentations at both the national and regional level annually. She has also served on committees that promote comparative and international scholarship, and national awards for comparative/international work. Her academic work focuses on comparative education as important to educator professionalism; curricular stratification and social exclusion globally; high status knowledge in comparative education scholarship; teacher marginalization in comparative education dialogue; and education for democracy.

Patricia received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her most recent scholarship is a co-authored introductory text for the field. Patricia has served as the Project Coordinator of the Citizenship Education Policy Study (1993-1997) and received the Outstanding Citizen Achievement Award from USAID in January 2003. She was also recognized by the White House in October 2002 for humanitarian and reconstruction efforts abroad. Both honors were for democratic education work conducted in Eastern Europe. She also received awards for the Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award (2001) from the Association of Teacher Educators, the Outstanding Dissertation Award (1998) from the American Educational Research Association, and the Outstanding Paper Award (1997) from the AERA Special Interest Group, Research in Social Studies Education.