Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education

Rosemary Papa is the Founder of Educational Leaders Without Borders and the Comparative and International Professor of Education and Leadership, Soka University of America (Fall 2017-present). She served as the Del and Jewel Lewis Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University (2007-2018). As well, she has served as a Principal/Chief School Administrator for two districts in Nebraska, system-level Assistant Vice Chancellor in the California State University System, Vice President for Sylvan Learning, and Professor and Faculty Director of a university-based Center for Teaching and Learning in California. In 2015, she was the recipient of the AERA 2015 Willystine Goodsell Award,Women in Education SIG for her research on women and girls, gave the SIG keynote address at AERA 2016,Washington, DC, and published Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny (2017). In 2012, she was the recipient of the Arizona School Administrators Outstanding Higher Education Administrator of the Year Award and was runner-up in 2019 for Innovative Curriculum Development Teaching Comparative Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Dr. Papa has published 25 books and monographs in the areas of leadership, social justice, educational policy, sustainability, school effectiveness, and technology for school leaders and teachers. Additionally, she has one other major work in progress: Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration (2020). She recently published School Violence in International Contexts: Perspectives from Educational Leaders Without Borders (2019) with Springer International. As well, Dr. Papa has published more than 80 articles in refereed academic journals/books.