Maria Manzon is an associate professor at the Department of Education, Sophia University, Tokyo. She is a core faculty of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures. She researches on globally inclusive histories of comparative education, religions and education for sustainability, and parental involvement in Asia. She has worked at the University of Hong Kong, National Institute of Education in Singapore, and the Education University of Hong Kong. She serves as a committee member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies’ (WCCES) Histories and Records Management, as well as of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities’ (SACRU) Working Group 2. Her publications include Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field; Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education; and Equity in Excellence: Experiences of East Asian High-Performing Education Systems.