After 18 years as a teacher and coordinator in Minneapolis Public Schools and a leader in Social Studies education in Minnesota and the nation, Dr.  Boucher received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Boucher studies the interplay between race, power, and curriculum through his varied work exploring the racialization of historical understanding, the impact of student-teaching experiences abroad on White teacher candidates, and a cultural studies critique of deficit models in education. Dr. Boucher’s studies have been published in Urban Education, The Urban Review, Action in Teacher Education, and in edited volumes. His methodological work, focusing on empowering individuals and communities as participants in ethnographic education research, has been published in the International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, Scholarly Publishing and Research Methods Across Disciplines, Handbook of Research on Innovative Techniques, Trends, and Analysis for Optimized Research Methods, and his edited volume, Participant Empowerment through Photo Elicitation in Ethnographic Education Research: New Research and Approaches.

Dr. Boucher has two new books in 2025-26:

Light a Fire and Watch it Burn: Disruptive Qualitative Methods in Education Research from Myers Education Press- Available NOW!

And

A second edition of his book, More Than an Ally: A Caring Solidarity Framework for White Teachers of African American Students, from Bloomsbury Press, is available in April 2026!

Links are available here.