Dr. John Petrovic is Professor in the Social and Cultural Studies Concentration. He earned his PhD in 1999 from University of Colorado in Foundations of Education, specializing in philosophy and policy studies. He is a past President of the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society and past Secretary of the American Educational Studies Association. A former ESL/FL teacher with a MEd in bilingual education from The Pennsylvania State University, Petrovic’s primary research interest is language policy in education. He is a Liberal political theorist, both critiquing and defending Liberal political theory, to inform analyses of policy in education. His publications appear in a variety of Foundations and Policy journals including Educational Studies, Educational Theory, The Oxford Review of Education, The Journal of Language and Politics, and Philosophy of Education. He has served on the Editorial Boards of several major journals, including the American Educational Research Journal and the International Multilingual Research Journal, and is currently Executive Editor of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. He is editor of and contributor to a number of edited volumes including International Perspectives on Bilingual Education (Information Age Press, 2010), Citizenship Education around The World: Local Contexts and Global Possibilities (w/ Aaron Kuntz, Routledge, 2014), Indigenous Philosophies of Education around The World (w/ Roxanne Mitchell, Routledge, 2018) and The Commodification of Language: Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations (w/ Bedrettin Yazan, Routledge, 2021). He is author of A Post-liberal Approach to Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, 2015) and Unschooling Critical Pedagogy, Unfixing Schools (Peter Lang, 2019). Petrovic teaches courses on Multicultural Education, Language Policy, and Philosophy of Education.
