Craig H. Kennedy, Ph.D., BCBA
Craig H. Kennedy, Ph.D., BCBA, Chair, Special Education Department, and Professor of
Special Education and Pediatrics, Box 328, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee 37203
Dr. Kennedy is Chair of the Special Education Department and Professor of Special Education
and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University and is a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator. He also
is Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Behavior Analysis Clinic. Dr. Kennedy received a master
of science degree in special education and rehabilitation from the University of Oregon and a
doctorate in special education with an emphasis in quantitative sociology from the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Kennedy has published more than 140 scholarly works, including the book Single-Case
Designs for Educational Research (Allyn & Bacon, 2005). He has served as Associate Editor of
the Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Education, and Journal of
The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.
He is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. He is a member of the American Association
on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Association for Behavior Analysis, Society for
Neuroscience, and TASH. He also serves on the editorial boards of many highly respected peer-reviewed
journals.
In 1991, Dr. Kennedy received TASH’s Alice H. Hayden Award, and in 1993, he received the
B.F. Skinner New Research Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 25.
He was also recognized in 2003 for his research excellence by Peabody College at Vanderbilt
University.