Joseph Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair of Education at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He also has 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 public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. He is a past vice president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and an AERA Fellow.