Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Nichols, Joseph R. and Alyssa Ignaczak. “Help Our Public Education (HOPE), Concerned Motherhood, and Integrating Atlanta’s Public Schools.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 109, no. 4 (December 2025): 352-376.

  • Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Performance Assessment of Student Teachers: A Policy Network Analysis of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 30, no. 7 (February 2022): 1–28.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Who Is a नागिरक (Citizen)? Civic Orientations in Indian Education Policy.” Citizenship, Teaching and Learning15, no. 2 (June 2020): 239–254.

  • Nichols, Joseph R., Stephanie Hendel, and Natalie Gerke. “For Those Who ‘Love Liberty and the American Way of Life’: Governor Lester Maddox and the Opening of Post-Brown Segregation Academies in Georgia.” History Matters 32, no. 4 (December 2019): 1–9.

  • Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “Framing Teacher Education: An Analysis of the Comprehensive Educator Equity Plans of Sixteen State Education Agencies.” The New Educator 15, no. 1 (January–March 2019): 1–17.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. and Alex Cuenca. “Two Roadmaps, One Destination: The Economic Progress Paradigm in Teacher Education Accountability in Georgia and Missouri.” Action in Teacher Education 36, no. 5/6 (Winter 2014): 446–459.

  • Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “Ferguson Is About Us Too: A Call to Explore Our Communities.” Social Education 78, no. 5 (September–October 2014): 248–253.

  • Cuenca, Alex, Mardi Schmeichel, Brandon M. Butler, Todd Dinkelman, and Joseph R. Nichols. “Creating a ‘Third Space’ in Student Teaching: Implications for the University Supervisor’s Status as ‘Outsider.’” Teaching and Teacher Education 27 (October 2011): 1068–1077.

Book Chapters

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Summative Assessment.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, edited by Bruce B. Frey, 1634–1635. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2018. Invited.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “The Economic Citizen: Civic Education and Its Discontents.” In Teaching in an Age of Economic Disparity, edited by Cory Wright-Maley and Trent Davis, 25–41. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Invited; peer reviewed.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Supervision and the Lives of Student Teachers.” In Supervising Student Teachers: Issues, Perspectives, and Future Directions in Field-Based Teacher Education, edited by Alex Cuenca, 77–92. Boston, MA: Sense Publishers, 2012. Invited; peer reviewed.

Policy Briefs, Education Reports, and Public Scholarship

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Brooks v. Moberly.” Missouri Encyclopedia (2025).

  • Nichols, Joseph R. and Alyssa Ignaczak. “Displacement of Black Teachers in Missouri Post-Brown, 1954-1970.” PRiME Center Education Reports 7, no. 22 (July 2025).

  • Nichols, Joseph R., Alex Cuenca, and Andrew Diemer. “Policy Analysis: The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Performance Assessment of Student Teachers.” PRiME Center Policy Briefs 3, no. 4 (July 15, 2021).

  • Nichols, Joseph R., Stacey Preis, and Evan Rhinesmith. “The Road Back: St. Louis Public School Governance.” PRiME Center Policy Briefs 1, no. 1 (April 19, 2019).

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Where Does Constitutional Originalism Come From?” An Injustice! (September 10, 2021).

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “The White Imagination of Make America Great Again.” An Injustice! (July 19, 2021).

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Morality by Executive Order.” Politically Speaking (February 28, 2021).

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “What Georgia’s County Unit System Tells Us About the Electoral College and Republican Party.” The Bigger Picture (January 26, 2021).

Reviews and Proceedings

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Review of The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States”, edited by Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden. Teachers College Record (online), 2017.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Review of From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Reconceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia”, by Iveta Silova. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education 3, no. 2 (April 2009): 131–133.

  • Nichols, Joseph R. “Citizenship Education, Patriotism, and Its Impact on Multiculturalism in American Schools.” In Proceedings from the International Conference on Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism, edited by Lefkios Neophytou, 502–512. Nicosia, Cyprus: University of Cyprus Press, 2009.