About our author James A. Banks holds the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and is Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. Professor Banks is a member of the National Academy of Education, a past President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 1997 to 1998) and of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS, 1982). He is also an AERA Fellow and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2005-2006. He is the editor of the Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education, the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education and the Multicultural Education Series of books published by Teachers College Press, Columbia University. His textbooks include Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, 6th Edition (Routledge, 2016) and (with Cherry A. McGee Banks) Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 9th Edition (Wiley, 2016). His work in multicultural education is known and influential throughout the world. His books have been translated into Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Arabic.
