Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership

Biography
Joy Howard is an Associate Professor in the Leadership and Educational Studies Department at Appalachian State University. Her work focuses on leadership for constructing humanizing educational communities. She is especially interested in humanizing movements, spacemaking and community engaged leadership.

Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Foundations of Education
University of South Carolina, 2013.

Master of Arts in Education
San Diego State University, 2004.

Bachelor of Science
Winthrop University, 2001.

Recent Publications
Howard, J. & Baker, T. (2024). Black life is not ungeographic! Applying a Black geographic lens to rural education research in the Black Belt. Journal of Rural Research in Education.

Howard, J. & Doucet, F. (2024). “Mixed Nation!” Introducing a Conceptual Framework for the (Im)Possibilities of Racialized Belonging among Black Mixed-Race Youth. Race, Ethnicity & Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2024.2328286

Baker, T. L., Howard, J., & Swain, A. (2023). A Systematic Review of Research on Race in Rural Educational scholarship since 2001. The Rural Educator, 44(2), 56-68.

Howard, J., Derk, K. & Colson, T. (2022). Let’s talk: Participatory action research and Improvement Science comparing our approaches to improvement. Impacting Education.

Baker, T. & Howard, J. (2021). Cultural literacy versus racial literacy: Developing an understanding of the difference. Teachers College Record. https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=23859

Howard, J., Thompson, C., Nash, K. (2020). Mother (space) Scholar (space): Poetic inquiries of motherscholaring. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1852486

Howard, J. (2020). The way it was being done: Considering race in classroom placement. Teacher Education Quarterly, 47, 1, 27-47. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=source%3a%22Teacher+Education+Quarterly%22&id=EJ1240 070

Howard, J. (2019). Just playin’: Multiracial boys and the injustice of boyhood. Race, Ethnicity & Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2019.1679760

Professional Affiliations
American Educational Research Association
American Educational Studies Association
Carnegie Project on the Educational Doctorate

National Leadership
Co-chair, URBAN- education node, 2013 to present
CPED social justice CIG co-chair, July 2022-present
Editorial Board member, Impacting Education: Journal on transforming professional practice (January 2022-2025 appointment)