Rate My Professor Ty McNamee

Dr. Ty C. McNamee serves as Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Higher Education at the University of Mississippi. He earned a Doctor of Education in Higher and Postsecondary Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2022, a Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of Connecticut in 2015, a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wyoming in 2013, and a Graduate Teaching Certificate from Colorado State University in 2022. During his doctoral studies, McNamee co-founded and led the Rural Education and Healthcare Coalition, a Teachers College network dedicated to rural education and healthcare programming and research. His career focuses on teaching postsecondary education courses, conducting research, and serving in institutional, state, and national roles.

McNamee's scholarship utilizes critical, sociological, and anthropological approaches for qualitative research on higher education access, success, equity for rural students—particularly poor and working-class individuals and those identifying as queer—as well as college teaching, learning, and faculty development at rural postsecondary institutions. His dissertation on the cultural experiences of rural, poor, and working-class students in higher education environments received the 2023-2024 American Educational Research Association Division J Dissertation of the Year Award, selected from 24 nominations. Additional honors include the 2024 Outstanding Research Grant Award from NASPA's Socioeconomic and Class Issues in Higher Education Knowledge Community and the 2023 Isom Fellowship. Research funding supports his work from entities such as the ECMC Foundation, ACPA, NODA, and the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Publications feature in Peabody Journal of Education, New Directions for Student Services, and Journal of Education Human Resources, with key works including the chapter "Spatial inequality and social class: Suggestions for supporting rural students across social class backgrounds" (2021) and an upcoming book under contract with Routledge. McNamee contributes to professional organizations including ASHE, AERA, NASPA, ACPA, and NREA.