Joel Malin, Ph.D.

Educational Credentials

• Ph.D., Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.A., Educational Leadership and Organizational Change, Roosevelt University
• Ed.S., Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
• B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Biography

Joel R. Malin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Miami University. His scholarship focuses on knowledge mobilization, research-practice-policy connections, and the politics of education. He is currently engaged in two primary research projects, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wallace Foundation, examining evidence use and knowledge mobilization in education. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) at Indiana University and is Secretary of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group (SIG) focused on Research Use. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Education Policy and the International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership. He was a Midwest Athletic Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow in 2022-23. Also in 2023, he was co-recipient of Miami University's Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring.