Joy Howard

Dr. Joy Howard

Associate Professor
Email
howardkj1@appstate.edu
Phone
828-262-2274

412 L
College of Education Building

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)