Liz Jackson

Liz Jackson is an American scholar of the philosophy of education and educational theory. She is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She holds the Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professorship in Diversity and Equity and serves as Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education. Previously, she was head of the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. Jackson is also a Fellow and Past President (2018-2020) of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).

University of Hong Kong

Jackson joined the University of Hong Kong in 2012 as an assistant professor and became a tenured associate professor in 2017. She served as Director of the Master of Education programme, was elected to the Comparative Education Research Centre management committee (2014–2018) and later became its Director, and participated in university committees on gender equality, diversity, and curriculum.

Education University of Hong Kong (2020–2023)

In 2020, Jackson was appointed Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong.

She was appointed Associate Dean (Research) and Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professor in Diversity and Equity.

Her third book, Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020), analysed the politics of emotional education and received the American Educational Studies Association Book Award and the Outstanding Book Award of the Society of Professors of Education.

Her fourth book, Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (2020), examined youth, civic identity, and protest in Hong Kong.

Jackson has also co-authored books on education in Tanzania and edited international volumes on ethics in higher education, race and racism, gender studies, and pedagogy. Her recent research addresses emotions and virtues, wellbeing, and cross-cultural ethics in education. Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Education (2020–2024).

Honours and awards

Conferred the Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professorship in Diversity and Equity (2025). World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientists (Single Year Impact), Stanford University/Elsevier, 2021-2025. World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientists (Career Long), Stanford University/Elsevier, 2025. Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education. 2025. The Inaugural Maxine Greene Leadership Award, Philosophy of Education Society (North America). 2025. Outstanding Book Award: Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions, Society of Professors of Education, 2022. Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, 2021. Presidential Research Award, the Korean Association for Multicultural Education, for “Harmony versus Homogenisation: Multiculturalism for Ethnic Minorities in China,” 2020. Student-Supervisor Publication Award, the University of Hong Kong, for “Multiculturalism in Chinese History in Hong Kong: Constructing Chinese Identity,” 2020. Elected Hong Kong Representative, Comparative Education Society of Asia, 2019. Book Award, the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, for Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education, 2019. Book Award, the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, for Muslims and Islam in US Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism, 2015. Elected Member Representative of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, 2015. Early-Career Conference Award, the University of Hong Kong, for “Altruism, Non-Relational Care, and Global Citizenship Education,” 2015. Fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Scholars Trust, 2005.

Selected Works Books

Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism (2014) Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019) Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020) Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (2020) Educational Assessment in Tanzania: A Sociocultural Perspective (with Joyce Kahembe, 2020) Corporal Punishment in Preschool and at Home in Tanzania: A Child Rights Challenge (with Reuben Sungwa and Joyce Kahembe, 2022)

Edited volumes

Asian Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development (2020) The Ethical Academy: The University as an Ethical System (2022) Race and Racism: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader (2022) Marxism, Neoliberalism, and Intelligent Capitalism (2022) From Radical Marxism to Knowledge Socialism (2022) The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing (2021) Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices (2019) From “Aggressive Masculinity” to “Rape Culture” (2019) Handbook of Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education (2016)