Juliet Barnett

Juliet Hart Barnett is Professor of Special Education in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching Innovation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on effective instruction for students with autism spectrum disorder, quality teacher preparation, and translation of research findings into classroom practice. Her research activities are primarily single-subject design studies where students serve as their own controls in actual classrooms to maximize impact on local students and teachers.

Professor Hart Barnett shares her expertise with pre-service teachers and serves as the faculty advisor for Barrett, The Honors College at ASU. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, scholarly newsletters, and proceedings in special education, has secured substantial external funding, presented to more than 150 national/international audiences, and is co-author of Friendship 101: Helping Students Build Social Competence, a book on evidence-based practices in autism. She is principal investigator on the doctoral training grant, LEADS: Leadership for Equity and Diversity in Special Education Administrators. 

Professor Hart Barnett serves as associate editor of the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities Online Journal. An intentional and frequent collaborator in scholarly writing with her students, she is the recipient of the 2017 Teachers College Award for Excellence in Integration of Scholarship and Teaching and the 2023 recipient of the Teachers College Award for Excellence in the Scholarship of Engagement. Her work has earned other honors, including the 2020 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities and the 2026 Distinguished Researcher Award from American Education Research Association’s Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG.