Kathryn Moeller

Kathryn Moeller is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary, ethnographic scholarship and teaching focus on the relationships among capitalism, de/coloniality, international development, and education using transnational feminist, race, and political economic approaches. She is author of The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development (University of California Press, 2018), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Sara A. Whaley Prize. She has also written articles on philanthropy, education policy, higher education, and research on corporations, as well as essays in The New Yorker, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and other outlets. She has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, and Fulbright-Hays. She has a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024–2025) for her forthcoming monograph, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Are Influencing Education around the World. Together with colleagues at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Estado da Bahia, she is co-coordinator of the Anti-racism in Education in Transnational Perspective programme at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES). She was previously a high school teacher.