Josh Harrower

Josh Harrower, Ph. D., BCBA-D is the Lawton Love Distinguished Professor of Special Education in the Department of Teacher Education at California State University, Monterey Bay. Dr. Harrower coordinates the Special Education Credential Programs and the university’s certificate program in behavior analysis, and holds certification as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral. Additionally, Dr. Harrower serves as the Principal Investigator and Director of Project STREAM, a grant funded by the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to provide a professional development scholarship program utilizing technology and mentorship to support candidates pursuing a Moderate to Severe Special Education Credential. In total, Dr. Harrower has been awarded over $5 million in external funding for personnel development and school climate transformation projects. Dr. Harrower received his doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he worked with Drs. Robert and Lynn Koegel in the Koegel Autism Center. After a post-doctoral internship at West Virginia University, Dr. Harrower went on to work at the University of South Florida where he coordinated a number of state and federal grants providing in-service training and consultative services to schools in the area of functional assessment, behavior intervention and school-wide positive behavior support. Dr. Harrower’s primary areas of scholarly interest include school-wide positive behavior support, autism spectrum disorder, applied behavior analysis, pivotal response treatment, functional assessment and behavior intervention. Dr. Harrower currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, is a member of the Editorial Board of Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disorders, and is a regular presenter at a number of national conferences including the Association for Positive Behavior Support and the Association for Behavior Analysis International. His research and conceptual articles have been published in scientific journals including the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, Preventing School Failure and Exceptionality.