about me

I am a professor in the Foundations of Education program at Virginia Tech. I teach courses in the foundations of education--the social sciences and humanities applied to education and schooling as an object of study--and in qualitative research methods.

My work focuses on…

Publication Highlights

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Books

• Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2022). Unpacking school lunch: Understanding the hidden ​politics of school food. Palgrave.
  
• Niemi, N. S. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (Eds.) (2021). The Wiley handbook of gender equity ​in higher education. Wiley.
  
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2019). How to write qualitative research. Routledge.
  
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Skelton, C. (Eds.) (2013). Leaders in gender and education: ​Intellectual self-portraits. Sense Publishers.
  
• Robert, S. A. & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (Eds.). (2011). School food politics: The complex ​ecologies of hunger and feeding in schools around the world. Peter Lang.
  
• Martino, W., Kehler, M., & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (Eds.). (2009). The problem with boys’ ​education: Beyond the backlash. Routledge.
  
• Weaver-Hightower, M. B.(2008). The politics of policy in boys’ education: Getting boys ​“Right.” Palgrave Macmillan.
  

Select Articles

• Wolgemuth, J. R., Marn, T. M., Barko, T., & Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2022). Radical uncertainty is not enough: (In)Justices of post-qualitative research. International Review of Qualitative Research, 14(4), 575-593.
• Kuttner, P., Weaver-Hightower, M. B., & Sousanis, N. (2021). Comics-based research: The affordances of comics for research across the disciplines. Qualitative Research.
• (2017). Losing Thomas and Ella: A father’s story (A research comic). Journal of Medical Humanities.
• (2014). A mixed methods approach for identifying influence on public policy. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8(2), 115-138.
• (2012). Waltzing Matilda: An autoethnography of a father’s stillbirth. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 41, 462-491.
• (2011). Why education researchers should take school food seriously. Educational Researcher, 40(1), 15-21.
• (2010, May/June). Where the guys are: How concerned should we be about men in higher education? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.
• (2008). An ecology metaphor for educational policy analysis: A call to complexity. Educational Researcher, 37 (3), 153-167.
• (2003). The “boy turn” in research on gender and education. Review of Educational Research, 73 (4), 471-498.
  

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