Professor and the director of the Center for Movement, Health and Disability
Old Dominion University

Justin A. Haegele is a professor and the director of the Center for Movement, Health and Disability in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at Old Dominion University. Dr. Haegele’s primary research explores how disabled individuals experience physical activity participation, including within school-based physical education contexts. He has written more than 225 peer-reviewed research publications, as well as several edited or authored texts. Dr. Haegele currently serves as the director of Project CAPER and co-director of the Multi-Institution Mentorship Consortium, two adapted physical activity training collaboratives focused on training doctoral scholars in the field. He is president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, and the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed publications “Quest” and “Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.” Dr. Haegele has a B.S. and M.S.Ed. in physical education from SUNY Brockport and a Ph.D. in adapted physical education from Ohio State University.

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