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Department
Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Office Location
202D Payne
Mailing Address
414 GPC
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
615-322-8038
Fax Number
615-343-7094
Email Address
Joseph F. Murphy
Frank W. Mayborn Professor of Education; Associate Dean for Special Projects
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1980
Joseph Murphy is associate dean and professor of education at Vanderbilt University, Peabody College of Education. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.
In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.
He is a past program chair for Division A of AERA and a past vice president of AERA. He was the founding Chair (1994-2004) of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is the co-editor of the "AERA Handbook of Research on Education Administration" (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook "The Educational Leadership Challenge" (2002).
His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 15 books and two major monographs in this area and edited another 12 books. His most recent authored volumes include: "Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement" (2002), "Leadership for Literacy" (2004), "Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement" (2005), "Preparing School Leaders: An Agenda for Research and Action" (2006) and "Turning Around Failing Schools: Leadership Lessons from the Organizational Sciences" (2008). He has also published more than 200 articles and book chapters on school improvement and leadership.
Murphy directed the development of the ISLLC Standards for School Leaders and chaired the research panel that produced the revisions to those standards-ISLLC: 2008. He led the CCSSO team that developed the specifications with ETS for the School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA). He is also one of the co-creators of the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED).