Lucas Cone

Lucas Cone is a Danish education researcher and Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His work examines educational policy, school life, digital technologies, privatization, and the effects of commercial platforms on public education. He holds a PhD from Aarhus University and a master’s degree in Comparative Education and Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Cone co-edited and co-translated If Schools Didn’t Exist: A Study in the Sociology of Schools, a 2020 English edition of Nils Christie’s work, with Joachim Wiewiura. He has also published research on the digitalization and commercialization of education and founded the PRIVATOPIA Research Network on the Privatization of European Education.