Kyle Chong

Asian American studies, youth literature, sociopolitical foundations of education, education policy, critical race studies, curriculum theory, critical qualitative research methods, Asian Studies, decolonial studies

• 2024-Present Chair, Outstanding Book Award Committee, American Educational Research Association (Division B, Curriculum Studies)
• 2026- Present Member, Critics Choice Book Award Committee, American Educational Studies Association
• 2025-2026 Inclusive Teaching Grant (Michigan State University)
• 2025 John Dewey Society/Educational Theory Outstanding Paper Award, Finalist
• 2025 Wizards of the Coast New Perspectives Grant 
• 2023 Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellow (University of Toronto)
• 2023 Donald H. Nickerson Fellowship in Cultural Diversity and Minority Concerns (Michigan State University)
• 2022 Anderson-Schwille Endowed Fellowship in International Education (Michigan State University)
• 2021 Jere E. and Arlene Pintozzi Brophy Endowed Fellowship in Education (Michigan State University)

Chong, K. L. & Orr, S. M. (In press). Tracking Sinocentrism: Mathematics education, San Francisco & racialized electoral politics. Journal of Asian American Studies. 

Markoff, B.* & Chong, K. L. (In Press). A continuum of scales to sustain educational resistances. Journal of Educational Foundations.

Nelson, P. M. & Chong, K. L. (2026). Failure and perfection in pedagogy and baseball. Studies in Philosophy and Education, online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-026-10050-x 

Chong, K. L. & Allweiss, A. C. (2025). K9 carcerality and coloniality: Police dogs in children’s media and curriculum. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2025.2572473 

Chong, K. L. (2025). Is Teaching American Born Chinese… Beyond Repair?: Preparing preservice teachers to navigate a “Great Wall” of mirrors and “bamboo” windows. Transnational Asia Journal: Special Issue “Orientalism and Asian Studies,” 6(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.25615/ta.v7i1.111

Chong, K. L. (2024). The nomencurriculum and the tight curricular space of name(s), Curriculum Inquiry. 54(1), 55-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2024.2359382

Orr, S. M. & Chong, K. L. (2024). Scales of educational resistance practices against Critical Race Theory ‘bans’, Educational Studies. 60(5), 511-529.https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2024.2359400

Bae, S., & Chong, K. L. (2024). Centering Cultural Knowledge in TPACK— Evidence From a Collaborative Online International Learning Collaboration. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 25(2), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v25i2.7548 

Chong, K. L. (2023). Sinophobia and Sinocentrism— An AsianCrit Analysis of The U.S. Military’s Wartime Curricular [Re]racialization of Chinese [Americans]. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 55(6), 682-699. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2267100

Chong, K. L. & Orr, S. M. (2023). Towards an Antiracist Pedagogy of Humanizing Co-Creatorship in Teacher Education, The Educational Forum, 87(3), 162-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2022.2153188

Chong, K. L. & Nelson, P. M. (2022). Curriculum as shadow play. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 37(3), 17-29, https://doi.org/10.63997/jct.v37i3.1015

Chong, K. L., Jefferson, T.*, moore, c. l.*, Chavis, T.*, Burgess, T., Flennaugh, T. K, Drain, M. H.* & Smith, S.* (2026, 10 April). Pushback, performance, praxis: A critical race discourse analysis of preservice teachers’ reflections on race & power. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 2026 (Division K, Sec. 03), Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Chong, K. L. & Paulson, E. X.* (2026, 04 April). Reconfiguring the Buddha Board: Working Against the Tyranny of Corporate Orientalization. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference 2026, Honolulu, HI, United States*.

Chong, K. L. & Orr, S. M. (2025, 02 November). Mathematics Tracking Policy and Overlooked “Sinocentrism” in San Francisco. American Educational Studies Association 2025 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, United States.

Warren, G. M.* & Chong, K. L. (2025, 12 September). Operationalizing BRT: An Anti-Colonial Materialist Framework. American Political Science Association 2025 Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Chong, K. L. & Allweiss, A. C. (2025, 26 April). Barking back at police dogs: Carcerality, coloniality and conscription of animals in children’s media and educational spaces. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 2025 (Division B Paper Session), Denver, CO, United States.

Nelson, P. M. & Chong, K. L. (2025, 06 March). Failure and perfection in pedagogy and baseball. John Dewey Society Conference 2025, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Chong, K. L. & Gajasinghe, K.* (2024, 18 October). “Can We Prevent Future Wars?” The curriculum of the (child)soldiers and waging peace through strength. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Annual Conference. Dayton, OH, United States.

Chong, K. L. (2024, 12 April). When the model minority myth shook up San Francisco politics: Sinocentric Asianization and the manipulation of social justice discourse in a local election. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 2024 (Division G), Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Gerloff, G. S. & Chong, K. L. (2024, 22 March). Whose Alliance? Exploring the shifting needs of multiethnic APIDA/A coalition and university campus organizing. APIDA/A Crossroads: 180 Years of Inclusion, Exclusion and (In)Visibility 2024 (Asian Pacific American Studies Symposium), East Lansing, MI, United States.

Chong, K. L. (2023, 09 November). Chinese Americans and the Life of Washington— Disrupting settler colonial binaries and Indigenous erasures in San Francisco. American Educational Studies Association 2023 Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, United States.