James A. Banks

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. His research focuses on multicultural education and diversity and citizenship education in a global context. He is a past president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), an AERA Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Education. Banks has given lectures on citizenship education and diversity in many different nations, including Australia, Canada, China, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, and New Zealand. His books have been translated into Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic.