Megan E. Lynch, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction in the Teaching, Learning, and Community Engagement Department within the College of Education at Boise State University, where she studies liberatory and humanizing clinically-based teacher education. A university-based teacher educator, Dr. Lynch comes to Boise State University after her postdoctoral position at the University of North Florida and doctoral studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She has extensive professional experience in education and has taught in a variety of contexts with a variety of learners, including classroom experience teaching multilingual students; mentoring teacher candidates; supervising and teaching undergraduate students; teaching, coaching, and facilitating professional learning for in-service teachers and graduate students; teaching dually enrolled students.

Dr. Lynch’s research draws on cultural historical and critical theories to better understand and shape the development of socially just pedagogies, political activism, and critical practitioner inquiry alongside teacher educators, teachers, and teacher candidates. Situated within school-university partnerships, Lynch’s scholarship focuses on the impact of and resistance to neoliberal ideologies on teacher education from the individual to the systems-level. Lynch’s publications can be found in Teachers College Record, School-University Partnerships, The New Educator, and the Journal of Educational Supervision, among others. Lynch has also published a number of cases and book chapters, including chapters in The Cambridge Handbook of School-University Partnerships and the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Teacher Education (4^th ed.). She currently serves as the Lead Associate Editor for School-University Partnerships and Associate Editor for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Historical Research.

Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Association of School-University Partnerships (formerly National Association of Professional Development Schools): https://nasup.org/dissertation-award/