Daniel Hamlin is Presidential Professor in education policy and Faculty Director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy (OCEP) at the University of Oklahoma. He is the founding director of OCEP, Editor-in-Chief of the Oklahoma Education Journal, and Research Affiliate at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.
Hamlin has authored 50 peer-reviewed studies, book chapters, and research reports. His work appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, Sociology of Education, the Journal of Criminal Justice, Educational Policy, and Urban Education. His research has also received coverage in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Forbes, Marginal Revolution, The 74, and Chalkbeat.
Hamlin is the recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the Randall and Lenise Stephenson Family Foundation, and the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems organization. Hamlin currently serves on the editorial boards of three peer reviewed scholarly journals.
At the University of Oklahoma, Hamlin received the College of Education’s Research and Scholarship Award in 2022 and Pre-tenure Faculty Award in 2021. In 2024, the University of Oklahoma awarded him a Presidential Professorship, and in the same year, he received the College of Education’s Graduate Student Mentoring Award. Hamlin was also awarded the Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Prior to joining OU, Hamlin earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where he received the Ken Leithwood Outstanding Thesis of the Year Award for his dissertation.
