His scholarship focuses on questions of equity and access about the ways in which educational actors make sense through processes of sensation and signification. This focus tends to center on the relationships between curriculum and students, the sociocultural contexts that inform such relationships, and the qualitative research methodologies utilized to study these nested layers of educational ecology. In addition to published articles and book chapters, Dr. Gershon is the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing on the topic of sensual curriculum and The Collaborative Turn: Working Together in Qualitative Research (Sense, 2009). He is the recent recipient of the 2013 Early Career Award from the Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.