Kadir Bahar

~ During 2024-2025 academic year, Dr. Bahar will be on research leave as a visiting scholar at the Center for Education Efficacy, Excellence, and Equity (E4) at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP). ~

Dr. Bahar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia. With the support of two prestigious fellowships, Minority Doctoral Research Fellowship and Professorate Fellowship, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Education. Dr. Bahar’s research focuses on equity and justice in excellence and advanced academics in STEM areas, with a specific focus on mathematics learning. In specific, he investigates the role of teachers in closing gender and race-based gaps in STEM education, particularly in advanced academic programs at urban public schools. Along with this, he investigates how counterspaces can be leveraged to bridge these excellence gaps in the K-12 settings. The second line of his research work focuses on teaching for creativity, with a focus on the role of teachers and teacher practices in the development of creativity in the classroom.

Currently Dr. Bahar serves as the interim co-editor of the Gifted and Talented International, and he is in the editorial board of the Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Advanced Academics, and Gifted Education International. Dr. Bahar’s research has appeared in journals including Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Thinking Skills and Creativity. Dr. Bahar is the recipient of numerous awards including Emerging Scholar Award from World Council for Talented Children and Early Career Award from NAGC Special Populations Network and Ocie T. Dekle Excellence in Teaching Award from University of Georgia.