Dr. Christopher Darius Stonebanks is an Associate Professor of Education and currently the Chair of the Research Ethics Board at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Concordia University and a PhD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada . He is the author of books, chapters and articles on issues in education including critical pedagogy, social justice, indigenous knowledge, and Islamophobia. Raised on the west-island of Montreal, Canada and being of mixed Iranian-European descent, his experience living as the Other influences his writing, research and lectures. He is the author of James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education (2008) and the co-editor with Ozlem Sensoy of Muslim Voices in School (2009) which has been awarded the 2010 Philip C. Chinn book award by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). Stonebanks is most recently the co-author and editor with Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe of Teaching Against Islamophobia (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education) (2010). He currently resides in Canton de Hatley, Quebec with his three children and his partner, Melanie Bennett.