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Michalinos Zembylas

Michalinos Zembylas

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Cyprus
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
77
Citations
25442
World Ranking
457
National Ranking
1

Michalinos Zembylas publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michalinos Zembylas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 517 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Michalinos Zembylas D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michalinos Zembylas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Cyprus Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Cyprus Leader Award

Overview

Michalinos Zembylas is affiliated with the Open University of Cyprus in Cyprus. Their research is primarily situated within the Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Education, Political Science and International Relations, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Peace and Human Rights Education
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Critical and Liberation Pedagogy

Recent papers by Michalinos Zembylas include:

  • A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism (2021), published in Learning Media and Technology
  • Affective and biopolitical dimensions of hope: From critical hope to anti-colonial hope in pedagogy (2020), published in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
  • Affective practices, difficult histories and peace education: An analysis of teachers' affective dilemmas in ethnically divided Cyprus (2020), published in Teaching and Teacher Education

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Pedagogy Culture and Society (12 publications)
  • Educational Philosophy and Theory (5 publications)
  • British Journal of Educational Studies (5 publications)
  • Studies in Philosophy and Education (5 publications)
  • Ethics and Education (5 publications)

Coauthors often collaborating with Michalinos Zembylas are:

  • Vivienne Bozalek
  • Melina Porto
  • Constadina Charalambous
  • Xanthia Aristidou
  • Zvi Bekerman

Their book contributions include titles published by Springer International Publishing and Cambridge University Press:

  • Responsibility, privileged irresponsibility and response-ability (2023), Springer International Publishing
  • Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism (2021), Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • Emotions and Teacher Identity: A poststructural perspective

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Discomforting Truths: The Emotional Terrain of Understanding Difference

    Megan Boler;Michalinos Zembylas

  • The Emotional Labour of Caring in Teaching.

    Lynn Isenbarger;Michalinos Zembylas

  • Discursive practices, genealogies, and emotional rules: A poststructuralist view on emotion and identity in teaching

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • INTERROGATING “TEACHER IDENTITY”: EMOTION, RESISTANCE, AND SELF‐FORMATION

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Introduction to Advances in Teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers’ Lives

    Paul A. Schutz;Michalinos Zembylas;Michalinos Zembylas

  • One teacher's identity, emotions, and commitment to change: A case study into the cognitive–affective processes of a secondary school teacher in the context of reforms

    K. van Veen;P.J.C. Sleegers;P.H.M. van de Ven

  • Emotional ecology: The intersection of emotional knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge in teaching

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • “STRUCTURES OF FEELING” IN CURRICULUM AND TEACHING: THEORIZING THE EMOTIONAL RULES

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Job satisfaction among school teachers in Cyprus

    Michalinos Zembylas;Elena Papanastasiou

  • Advances in teacher emotion research : the impact on teachers' lives

    Paul A. Schutz;Michalinos Zembylas

  • Beyond teacher cognition and teacher beliefs: the value of the ethnography of emotions in teaching

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Teaching contested narratives : identity, memory and reconciliation in peace education and beyond

    Zvi Bekerman;Michalinos Zembylas

  • Adult learners’ emotions in online learning

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • EMOTIONAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATION: THEORETICAL INSIGHTS FROM BOURDIEU

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Theory and methodology in researching emotions in education

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • The emotional characteristics of teaching: an ethnographic study of one teacher

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Caring for Teacher Emotion: Reflections on Teacher Self-Development

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • ‘Pedagogy of discomfort’ and its ethical implications: the tensions of ethical violence in social justice education

    Michalinos Zembylas

  • Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research

    Vivienne Bozalek;Michalinos Zembylas

  • Constructing Genealogies of Teachers' Emotions in Science Teaching.

    Michalinos Zembylas

Frequent Co-Authors

Panayiota Kendeou
Panayiota Kendeou University of Minnesota
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Francisco José García-Peñalvo
Francisco José García-Peñalvo University of Salamanca
Bob Lingard
Bob Lingard Australian Catholic University

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