Dr. Micki Caskey is professor emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at Portland State University. Her research and specialization areas include middle grades education, teacher education, mentoring, doctoral education, and academic writing. She engages in and benefits from mutual mentoring relationships with practitioners (teachers and principals), academics (tenure-line/tenured and fixed-term faculty), and doctoral students.  

Micki is the co-series editor of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education and The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education, past executive advisor and chair of the MLER SIG, past chair of the Association for Middle Level Education’s Research Advisory Committee, and former editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online. She has experience as an associate dean for academic affairs, doctoral program director, writing coach, teacher educator, and middle school teacher. She is the author of multiple books and numerous peer-reviewed publications; she also continues to share her ideas at national and international conferences.