William Pinar
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC.

E-mail: william.pinar@ubc.ca

William F. Pinar is currently holds a Canada Research Chair in the Centre for International Curriculum in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. He has also served as the Frank Talbott Professor at the University of Virginia and the A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University; he taught at the University of Rochester 1972-1985. He is the author of Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality (Peter Lang, 1994), The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Peter Lang, 2001), the senior author of Understanding Curriculum (Peter Lang, 1995), and the editor of Queer Theory in Education (LEA, 1998). He is President of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (www.iaacs.org). Bill lives in Surrey, BC with his partner Jeff Turner; he has one son (Gabriel, a "techie" working in San Francisco).