Biography
Michael P. O’Malley is Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Educational and Community Leadership at Texas State University. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Chile and continues to lead collaborative educational and research exchanges with Chilean universities. O'Malley's research interests address the twinned focus areas of public pedagogies of social transformation and leadership for educational equity, and he takes up questions in these areas through poststructural and curriculum theories. His scholarship has been published in top ranked journals including Review of Educational Research and Educational Administration Quarterly. O’Malley serves as Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Student Success at Texas State. He collaboratively secured over $800,000 in external funding to stand up the university’s new four-year residential college experience for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is principal investigator for a U.S. Department of Education - Augustus F. Hawkins Center of Excellence grant ($2.74 million), and has been appointed Honorary Professor of International Studies. O'Malley served as Associate Director of Publications for the University Council for Educational Administration, President of the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and as an inaugural member of Austin ISD's Equity Advisory Committee. He received the 2023 Texas Council of Deans of Education Outstanding Leadership Award and was a 2023-2024 Fellow in the national Deans for Impact Academy. O’Malley is a proud former secondary school teacher and principal, and earned an Interdisciplinary Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from Saint Joseph's University.