Máirtín Mac an Ghaill is Professor of Multi-professional Education, and the director of the Children, Young People and Family Research Centre at Newman University, Birmingham. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexuality and Schooling, The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender and Education (ed) (with Madeline Arnot), Education and Masculinities and Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities.
He has recently completed Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global Transformations. He has recently been a joint director of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project exploring Bangladeshi young people, ethnicity and transition to adulthood. He is currently working with postgraduate students from China, Taiwan and Japan on: global masculinities, migration, cultural identity and diversity.
Currently at Newman University he is a senior professor.
Books
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (1994). The making of men: masculinities, sexualities and schooling. Buckingham Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335157815.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (2000). Contemporary racisms and ethnicities: social and cultural transformations. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335196722.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (1999). Contemporary racisms and ethnicities: social and cultural transformations. Buckingham England Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335196722.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Brah, Avtar; Hickman, Mary J. (2000). Thinking identities: ethnicity, racism and culture. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780333717745.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Brah, Avtar; Hickman, Mary J. (2000). Global futures: migration, environment and globalisation. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780333717769.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2003). Men and masculinities: theory, research and social practice. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335208913.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Arnot, Madeleine (2006). The RoutledgeFalmer reader in gender and education. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781574444902.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2007). Gender, culture and society. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780333987841.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2013). Education and masculinities: social, cultural and global transformations. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415593106.
Lin, X.; Haywood, C. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (2016 forthcoming) East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Man an Ghaill, M. and Haywood, C. (2016 forthcoming) Education, Neo-liberalism and Muslim Students: Schooling as 'Suspect Community'. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Recent Chapters in Books
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2007), "Boys schooling: English practices and perspectives", in Davison, Kevin G.; Frank, Blye W., Masculinities, nationalisms and schooling: international perspectives, Canada: The Althouse Press, ISBN 9780920354650.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2007), "The significance of teaching boys", in Martino, Wayne; Meyenn, Bob, What about the boys?: Issues of masculinity in schools, Buckingham: Open University Press, ISBN 9780335206230.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris, "Heterosexism and homophobia in the hidden curriculum", in Banks, Barbara J., Gender and education: an encyclopaedia, New York: Greenwood Press, ISBN 9780313333439.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris, "Masculinity, homophobia, and teaching", in Banks, Barbara J., Gender and education: an encyclopaedia, New York: Greenwood Press, ISBN 9780313333439.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (2010), "'Beyond the white norm: the use of qualitative methods in the study of black youths' schooling in England", in Torrance, Harry, Qualitative research methods in education, London: Sage, ISBN 9781848602076.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2012), "Postmodern sexualities", in Sim, Stuart, Companion to postmodernism, London: Routledge, ISBN 9780415583329.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (2012), "The queer in masculinity: schooling, boys, and identity formation", in Landreau, John C.; Rodriguez, Nelson M., Queer masculinities: a critical reader in education, New York: Springer, ISBN 9789400725515.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (2013), "The Making of Men and other texts", in Skelton, Christine; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Leaders in gender and education: intellectual self portraits, New York: Sense Publications, pp. 147–162, ISBN 9789462093034.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris; Bright, Zoë (2013), "Making connections: speed dating, masculinity and interviewing", in Pini, Barbara; Pease, Bob, Men, masculinities and methodologies, London: Palgrave, pp. 77–89, ISBN 9781137005724.
Haywood, C. and Mac an Ghaill, M. (2015) ‘Critical Masculinity Studies’, in S. Sim (ed.) European Companion to Critical Theory. London: Routledge.
Lin, X.; Mac an Ghaill, M. (in-press) (Re)-masculinizing ‘suzhi jiaoyu’ (education for quality): aspirational values of modernity in neoliberal China. In Stahl, G. et al. (eds.) Masculinity and Aspiration: International Perspectives in the Era of Neoliberal Education. London: Routledge.
Recent Selected Journal articles
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (November 2010). "Educating for political activity: a younger generational response". Educational Review. Taylor and Francis. 62 (4): 379–390. doi:10.1080/00131911.2010.516819.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (September 2011). "Schooling, masculinity and class analysis: towards an aesthetic of subjectivities". British Journal of Sociology of Education. Taylor and Francis. 32 (5): 729–744. doi:10.1080/01425692.2011.596370.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (September 2011). "'Nothing to write home about': troubling concepts of home, racialization and self in theories of Irish male (e)migration". Cultural Sociology. Sage. 5 (3): 385–402. doi:10.1177/1749975510378196.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (February 2012). "Understanding boys: thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide". Social Science and Medicine, special issue: Men, masculinities and suicidal behaviour. Elsevier. 74 (4): 482–489. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.036. PMID 20833461.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (October 2012). "'What's next for masculinity?' Reflexive directions for theory and research on masculinity and education". Gender and Education. Taylor and Francis. 24 (6): 577–592. doi:10.1080/09540253.2012.685701.
Lin, Xiaodong; Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (September 2013). "Chinese male peasant workers and shifting masculine identities in urban workspaces". Gender, Work and Organization. Wiley. 20 (5): 498–511. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2012.00598.x.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (September 2014). "Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men: re-racialization, class and masculinity within the neo-liberal school". British Journal of Sociology of Education, special issue: Educational Inclusion. Taylor and Francis. 35 (5): 753–776. doi:10.1080/01425692.2014.919848.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (January 2015). "British born Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men: exploring unstable concepts of Muslim, Islamophobia and racialization". Critical Sociology. 41 (1): 97–114. doi:10.1177/0896920513518947. Available online first on 15 April 2014.
Haywood, C.; Mac an Ghaill, M. and Allan, J. A. (2015) Special Section: A War on Boys? Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 8(1):15-83.
Haywood, C.; Mac an Ghaill, M. and Allan, J. A. (2015) Schools, Masculinity and bones in the War Against Boys. Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 8(1):15-21.
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin; Lowe, John (June 2015). 'The Postcolonial Ambiguities of Eurasian pan-ethnicity in Singapore', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal24 (2): 232-45. Sage DOI: 10.1177/0117196815579955
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin; Lowe, John; Haywood, Chris (2016). 'The cultural (re)production of masculinities: Chinese ethnicity, class and elite schooling in Indonesia', Asian Journal of Social Science44Brill Publishers: Forthcoming.
Papers
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Hanafin, Joan; Conway, Paul (2004). Gender politics and exploring masculinities in Irish education. Dublin: NCCA. Pdf.
Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín; Haywood, Chris (2007). A man of the world: emerging representations of global genders(pdf). Keele University. Conference, 2002.