Jennifer L Jolly holds a Ph.D. from Baylor University. She is a director of the Gifted Education and Talent Development Office and a professor at the College of Education at the University of Alabama. She also holds an honorary professorship at the University of New South Wales. Her experience with gifted education spans over 20 years, beginning as a classroom teacher in Texas. She has held faculty positions in gifted education at Louisiana State University and the University of New South Wales (Australia). For her work in gifted education, she received the NAGC Early Leader Award (2013), the Award for Excellence in Research from the Mensa Foundation (2010), and the Michael Pyryt Collaboration Award, AERA/Research Creativity, Giftedness and Talent (2012). Her research interests include parents of gifted children, homeschooling gifted and advanced learners, the history of gifted education, and Australian gifted education.