| Michael Dantley Miami University |
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Dr. Michael Dantley is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he teaches graduate courses on leadership and organizational theory, change and the school principalship. In the spring of 2003, Dr. Dantley received the Richard T. Delp Award for Outstanding Faculty from the School of Education and Allied Professions of Miami University. His research centers on the inclusion of African American spirituality, critical theory and transformative leadership grounded in Cornel West’s notions of prophetic pragmatism in the traditional discourse of school leadership and school reform. He is presently involved in a national research study on Investigating Principals’ Spirituality: A New Dimension in Educational Leadership and School Reform. Dr. Dantley has been published in the Journal of School Leadership, Education and Urban Society, the International Journal of Leadership in Education, the Journal of Negro Education, and several others. He presents consistently at both the annual conferences of the University Council for Educational Administration and the American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Dantley received his undergraduate degree in history and education from the University of Pennsylvania, his masters in educational administration from Miami University, and his doctorate in education from the University of Cincinnati. He also received a certificate in leadership education from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in the spring of 2001. Prior to coming to the professoriate, he served as a teacher, principal and central office administrator with the Cincinnati Public Schools.
Dr. Dantley has served as a mentoring scholar for doctoral students in the David Clark Graduate Student Symposium, is presently on the editorial boards of Educational Administration Quarterly and the Scholar Practitioner Quarterly and was most recently named the editor of the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. He regularly reviews for Educational Administration Quarterly, the Journal of School Leadership, the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and the International Journal of Leadership in Education.