Rate My Professor Garth Stahl

Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. He earned his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Arts in International Education from New York University, and a Bachelor of Secondary Education and English from Indiana University. Before pursuing research, he taught in secondary schools in the United Kingdom and the United States, and served as a Tutor at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2009. Currently, he teaches courses at undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels.

Stahl's research examines the relationship between education and society, socio-cultural studies of education, student identities, equity and inequality, social change, masculinities, widening participation, learner identities, and student mobilities within neoliberal contexts. He specializes in qualitative research methods, visual research methods, and ethnography. His contributions have earned the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA, DE170100510, 2017-2019) on extreme disadvantage, masculinities, and widening participation; recognition by The Australian newspaper as one of the top 40 early-career researchers in Australia (2019); and recent ARC Discovery Projects including 'Including the voice of boys and young men in their health and well-being education' (DP250102623, 2025-2028) and 'Investigating how boys and young men experience their digital lives' (DP250104014, 2025-2028). Key publications encompass books such as Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating White Working-Class Boys (2015, Routledge), Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success (2018, Routledge), Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education: Policies, Pathways and Progress (2021, Routledge), Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity (2022, Routledge, with Sarah McDonald), and Boyhood in the Digital Age (2025, Springer Nature Switzerland, with Laura Scholes and Sarah McDonald). Stahl has held leadership positions, including SIG Convener for the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).