T. Philip Nichols

T. Philip Nichols is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Baylor University. He holds a Ph.D. in Literacy, Culture and International Education from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned an M.A. in History and Sociology of Science. His research brings these fields into conversation, examining how science and technology condition the ways we practice, teach, and talk about literacy and organize public education more generally.

Nichols is the author of Building the Innovation School: Infrastructures for Equity in Today's Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2022). His work also appears in the Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, and Research in the Teaching of English and other scholarly and practitioner journals, as well as popular venues like Logic Magazine and the Atlantic. He lives in Austin, TX.