Irving Seidman is a professor emeritus of qualitative research and secondary teacher education at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Oswald Tippo and the Early Promise of the University of Massachusetts (2002), The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher with Robert Maloy (1999), In the Words of the Faculty (1985), and articles published under the name Earl Seidman.