Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between cultural production and solidarity. He is the author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School (2009) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education (2019).