Thomas S. Popkewitz is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His concern is the cultural politics and history of education and curriculum studies, teacher education, and social and psychological sciences studies.  He has written and edited approximately 40 books and over 300 journals articles, and as book chapters, the research has been translated into 17 languages. His recent books are The Impracticality Of Practical Research, A History Of Sciences Of Change That Conserve and Excludes (2020) and The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People (edited with D. Pettersson, & K. Hsiao,); and Zhao, W., Popkewitz, T S & Autio, T.Eds. (in press) Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics.