Max Yakubovskiy
Position title: Comparative International Education and Global Studies
Email: yakubovskiy@wisc.edu
Max Yakubovskiy is a Ph.D. dissertator in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. His research sits at the intersection of comparative and international education, decolonial studies, and queer* theory, with a particular focus on decolonizing queerness and examining how global power relations shape gender and sexuality in higher education. His dissertation examines the lived experiences of queer* international students in U.S. universities, attending to questions of belonging, marginalization, and institutional responsibility amid shifting political climates. He holds a B.A. in anthropology and social sciences and an M.A. in linguistics.