Dr. Joseph Mahoney

Educational Background

1993    B.S.     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Child Psychology, summa cum laude)

1997    Ph.D.   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Developmental Psychology)

1999    Post-Doctoral Stockholm University, Sweden (Developmental Science)

Primary Areas of Interest

• Social, Emotional, and Educational Development
• Out-of-School Time and Positive Youth Development
• Applied Developmental Science, Practice, and Policy

Biography

Dr. Joseph Mahoney is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and Senior Research Scientist at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) in Chicago. He has authored over 75 published articles, books, and chapters related to the social, emotional, and educational development of young people. Much of his research focuses on understanding how out-of-school time relates to positive youth development across school, family, and community settings. He also collaborates with CASEL to make scientific evidence related to social and emotional learning useful for practitioners and used in practice to support high-quality learning environments and positive developmental outcomes.

Dr. Mahoney currently serves on the editorial boards of Educational Researcher and Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice. He is a past co-editor of the International Journal of Research on Extended Education and editorial board member of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and Applied Developmental Science.

Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Superior, Dr. Mahoney served as an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University (1999-2007), a professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine (2007-2014), and a professor in Department of Psychology at Elizabethtown College (2014-2016). In 2011 he received the Society for Research in Child Development’s Distinguished Congressional Policy Fellowship and served as lead education council for U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. He received the UCI Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and the Civic Engagement and Community-Based Learning Faculty Award from Elizabethtown College in 2016.

Websites

• https://casel.org/joseph-l-mahoney/
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph_Mahoney5
• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DlT5vDMAAAAJ&hl=en