Noah Karvelis is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Northern Arizona University. His research critically examines the philosophies, histories, and politics of music education in the U.S., focusing on how power and inequity shape practices often assumed to be good, creative, or inclusive. He also explores how educators respond to systemic injustice through political action, activism, and pedagogy.

His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy of Music Education Review, Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, TOPICS for Music Education Praxis, and Critical Education. He has contributed chapters to edited volumes including Purposes and Places of Popular Music Education, The HipHopEd Reader, and Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and regularly presents at national and international conferences.

At NAU, Noah teaches courses in foundations of music education, elementary/general music methods, and popular music pedagogies. His teaching fosters critically engaged music educators equipped to bring contemporary, responsive approaches into the classroom. 

Previously, Noah taught K–8 general music in Tolleson, Arizona, and was involved in teacher organizing and educational justice movements. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.