Professor Kyriacopoulos received his Ph.D. from James A. Banks with the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington. Having taught undergraduate and graduate courses in education, teaching, and critical literacies with the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Professor Kyriacopoulos has joined Salisbury University to focus on Social Studies and Multicultural Education, with a primary focus on the voices of suppressed groups. He was an elementary school teacher in a mixed grades classroom, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, in Seattle Public School before going into graduate school.