Kal Alston, professor of cultural foundations of education, is trained in philosophy of education. She spent her earlier career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in educational policy studies and as director of the Gender & Women's Studies Program. Professor Alston's scholarly interests center on intersections of popular culture/media with American experiences of race, class, and gender. She is currently working on analyses of contemporary girlhood, early adolescent culture and education, and race and fatherhood, as well as the development of women's leadership in academia and in other social contexts.Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1989