Dr. M. Francyne Huckaby

Biography:

Dr. M. Francyne Huckaby is the Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs and Executive Director of the Koehler Center. Fran is committed to TCU’s mission and the Teacher-Scholar model. The Center fosters teaching excellence and offers faculty-centered programming so TCU faculty can be student-centered.

Fran has served in faculty and leadership roles at TCU for over 20 years. She started as an Assistant Professor and moved through the ranks to Professor in the College of Education. She taught undergraduate and graduate students curriculum theory, educational and social foundations, and research methodologies including qualitative research and film as inquiry. Her books include Researching Resistance: Public Education After Neoliberalism (2019) and Making Research Public in Troubled Times (2018). She is the author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters that appear in publications such as International Review of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.

In addition to her current and faculty roles, Fran served as Director of TCU’s Center for Public Education, Interim Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean. She also held leadership roles in the Society of Professors of Education including President, American Educational Studies Association, American Educational Research Association. She isrecipient of the following honors: Professors of Curriculum, Society of Professors of Education’s Mary Anne Raywid and William H. Watkins Awards, American Educational Research Association’s Curriculum Studies Outstanding Book honorable mention and Qualitative Research Outstanding Dissertation, Fort Worth PFLAG’s Straight for Equality award, as well as Texas Christian University’s Camp Research and Creative Activity Award, Deans Teaching Award, and Mortar Board Preferred Professor.