Junzi Huang

I am a social theorist and education scholar. I teach, research, and write about education and social changes, attention studies, and affect theory with global perspectives. I look at how knowledge, bodies, emotions, and events take shape in everyday life worlds and their encounters with various social relations. I have published in Global Education, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Continental Philosophy of Education, Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education, and elsewhere. My current book project explores the intricated processes in which our attention (and distraction) becomes an object of global intervention. 

I am interested in cultivating and experimenting effective and creative teaching in universities, schools and beyond. I take joy in preparing students with method and theory to conduct a fun and critical anatomy of global phenomena that affect their everyday lives. In addition to teaching in higher education, I also spent years committing to teach in non-profit settings and underserved communities, such as creating creative writing workshops for students from migrant families and those living with non-neurotypical conditions.