Faculty Profiles

Dr. William R. Black

Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 

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Email: wrblack@usf.edu
Office: USF Tampa campus, EDU 158-O 
Phone: 813-974-6097


Bill Black is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp of South Florida. Before joining USF, Dr. Black was an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp at Indianapolis (IUPUI). Dr. Black previously worked in Florida, Costa Rica, and Texas as a community educator and immigration paralegal, bilingual elementary school teacher, and Elementary Administrator. Dr. Black received a B.A. in Anthropology and Comparative Area Studies from Duke ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp of Texas at Austin.  

Dr. Black's research interests focus on leadership preparation and partnerships, as well as educational policy implementation related to ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps identified with disabilities and bilingual/bicultural ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps. He has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-principal investigator (co-PI) on grants totaling over $4 million, and has worked extensively with local school districts to coordinate multiple district funding initiatives to recruit, select, and support over 150 educators pursuing Masters and Ed.S Masters degrees. 

Dr. Black has served as the co-editor of the and recently co-edited two volumes in the Research and Theory in Educational Leadership Book Series: (2019) and (2022). He has also served as the President of the , a consortium of 110 research universities.