I am an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Education in the Kitt School of Music at Northern Arizona University. My research and teaching draw on postfoundational theory to examine how power, governance, and difference operate in music classrooms, with the goal of developing more equitable and responsive approaches to curriculum and pedagogy.

My work builds upon my prior experience teaching elementary and secondary general music in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as my involvement in teacher organizing and education justice movements. I earned my Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Contact: noah.karvelis@nau.edu