Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Banks is a past president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Banks holds honorary doctorates from the Bank Street College of Education, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, DePaul University, Lewis and Clark College, and Grinnell College. Publications Banks has written widely in the fields of multicultural education, citizenship education, and social studies education. His works include: Books authored Diversity, Transformative Knowledge, and Civic Education: Selected Essays, 2020 An Introduction to Multicultural Education (6th edition), 2019 Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching (6th edition), 2016 Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies (8th edition), 2009 Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society (2nd edition), 2007 Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks, 2006 Books edited Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives (10th edition), co-editor with Cherry A. McGee Banks, 2020 Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research and Teaching, 2017 Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice, co-editor with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Miriam Ben-Perez, 2016 Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education (4 Volumes), 2012 The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education, 2009 Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, 2004 Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (2nd edition), co-editor with Cherry A. McGee Banks, 2004 Books by Banks have been translated into Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic. References James A. Banks Papers, 1966-2019. Papers of a University of Washington professor and specialist in social studies education and multicultural education and Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education. University of Washington Libraries, Special collections. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv978972 “Thanks, Professor Banks: ‘The Father of Multicultural Education’ is retiring after 50 at UW. December 2018. University of Washington Magazine. https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/james-banks-uw-retires-multicultural-education/ “Family of Fellows: Patricia Banks and James Banks.” Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, March 11, 2019. https://casbs.stanford.edu/news/family-fellows-patricia-banks-and-james-banks Tomlinson, S. (2021) ‘Book review: Diversity, Transformative Knowledge, and Civic Education: Selected essays, by James A. Banks’. London Review of Education, 19 (1), 8, 1–3. https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/aad67498-5c08-4358-b1a3-e4a9745f2790/ScienceOpen/lre19010008.pdf Powers, T. F. (2002). Postmodernism and James A. Banks’ Multiculturalism: The Limits of Intellectual History. Educational Theory, Vol. 52 (2), 209-221. Robert F. Arnove (May, 2019). Review of Citizenship Education and