Dr. Lisa Mazzei
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Dr. Mazzei brings to the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies experience from both a U.S. and U.K. perspective in the areas of applied research; program leadership; qualitative inquiry; urban teacher education; instructional leadership; and undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising.
She is committed to research and scholarship. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the UK. Prior to moving to the UK she was a tenured Associate Professor of Education at Ohio Dominican University, a Catholic, Dominican university located in Columbus, Ohio. She has experience working with graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including education, higher education, social services, health care, and government doing both qualitative and quantitative research. She is on the editorial board for the International Review of Qualitative Inquiry and has published two books: Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions in Qualitative Research (2009) co-authored with A. Y. Jackson and Inhabited Silence in Qualitative Research: Putting Poststructural Theory to Work. Dr. Mazzei has numerous other publications and presentations.
She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Ohio State University in Educational Policy and Leadership with a major in Instructional Design and Technology and minors in Social and Cultural Foundations of Education and Qualitative Studies in Education. The title of her dissertation was White Wash: The Absent Presence of Race Among White Educators.