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Carol A. Mullen is a Professor of educational leadership at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and a former Department Chair, Director of the School of Education, and coordinator of mentoring programs for faculty and students. An interdisciplinary researcher, she focuses on improving education by building capacity for leadership and professional development in schools and academia. Topics include pedagogy, mentoring, collaboration, policy, and creativity from critical perspectives, specifically diversity, equity, and social justice. She is a J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar alumnus.
Education
editMullen received a bachelor’s degree from York University and a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Toronto.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
editMullen’s alma mater, the University of Toronto, honored her with the 2020 Leaders and Legends Excellence Award, and she received the 2022 Master Professor Award and 2016 Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). Also, she was recognized in 2017 with the Living Legend Award from the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership. Other awards include the 2021 Alumni Award for Excellence in International Research Award and the 2019 Alumni Award for Research Excellence Award from Virginia Tech’s Office of Research and Innovation.
Career
editMullen is a professor of educational leadership at Virginia Tech and a former Department Chair, Director of the School of Education, and coordinator of mentoring programs for faculty and students. She served as President of UCEA from 2022 to 2023, and is the past president of two national organizations in education. From 2002 to 2010, she served as Editor of the Mentoring & Tutoring journal, and is currently on the editorial boards of Interchange, International Journal of Mentoring & Coaching in Education, and Teacher Development.
Selected recent publications
editBooks
edit- Tienken, C. H., & Mullen, C. A. (Eds.). (2022). The risky business of education policy. Routledge.
- Mullen, C. A. (Ed.). (2021). Handbook of social justice interventions in education. Springer.
- Mullen, C. A. (2020). Canadian Indigenous literature and art: Decolonizing education, culture, and society. Brill.
- Mullen, C. A. (2020). Revealing creativity: Exploration in transnational education cultures. Springer.
- Mullen, C. A. (Ed.). (2019). Creativity under duress in education? Resistive theories, practices, and actions. Springer.
Articles
edit- Cox, J. S., & Mullen, C. A. (2023). Impacting student achievement: Principals’ instructional leadership practice in two Title I rural schools. Journal of School Leadership, 33(1), 3–25.
- Mullen, C. A., & Badger, S. C. (2023). Leadership support in a pandemic: Middle school teacher perceptions of emergency remote teaching. Research in Middle Level Education, 46(4), 1–15.
- Mullen, C. A., & Bartlett, T. C. (2022). Charter movement controversy: An American public charter school case study. Education Inquiry, 1–18.
- Mullen, C. A., & Fallen, M. T. (2022). Navigating uncharted waters: New teacher mentoring and induction. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 7(4), 751–785.
- Mullen, C. A. (2022). Guiding online students in a crisis: An intervention for mentoring educational leadership doctoral candidates. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 1–24.
- Mullen, C. A. (2022). I write as an uninvited guest on Indigenous land: Recentering allyship in education. Educational Studies, 58(4), 495–510.
- Mullen, C. A., & Hunt, T. K. (2022). Emotional disability and strategies for supporting student outcomes: Interviews with K–12 special education teachers. Teacher Development, 26(4), 453–471.