Holding a dual appointment to the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, Dr. Kingston has served the Boston University/Chelsea Partnership as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction since September 1994. At the same time he has served as a member of the professorial team that leads one of the core doctoral seminars at the School of Education, SED 703, Philosophical Foundations of Education. He also co-taught an advanced doctoral pilot seminar on the theme of Justice and Education.


Dr. Kingston joined the Boston University faculty after more than a decade as a senior executive for the National Endowment for the Humanities and as liaison to small and independent federal agencies for Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review. Dr. Kingston's academic research is in the area of eighteenth-century British literature and the sister-arts tradition. He began his career as a high school English teacher. Subsequently, he spent several years with a national, nonprofit, professional development group that served teachers at all levels. He has also had a lifelong interest in church music. He holds a license as a public school superintendent from the Massachusetts Department of Education. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Guild of Organists, he is the organist and choirmaster for the Church of our Saviour (Episcopal) in Arlington, Massachusetts.


Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Dr. Kingston went on to receive a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. His doctorate is in English language and literature, earned at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.