He has given keynote lectures at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing as well as the annual meetings of the National Council of Urban Education Association and the University Council on Educational Administration, and held residencies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Uppsala University, Sweden, with plans to return to Japan in Summer 2011 to teach in a study-abroad program on youth and diversity.

Dr. Kumashiro is the author or editor of eight books or journal issues on anti-oppressive education and activism. In addition to his own research, Dr. Kumashiro supports the research of others in this field. He has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Ethnoscapes, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, and Teachers College Press, as well as the advisory boards of the Diversity Resources Center at Virginia Tech and the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. In recent years, he has served as an external reviewer for such journals as Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’education, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Educational Researcher, Equity and Excellence in Education, International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Review of Educational Research, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Teaching Education. He has served on the Program Committee and Awards Committee for the Teaching and Teacher Education Division of AERA, and on the Awards Committee and Equity Committee for the Curriculum Studies Division of AERA. He has also been a member of various professional and advocacy associations, including the National Association for Asian Pacific American Education, the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans, the Association for Asian American Studies, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, and the National Association for Multicultural Education.