Julia Link Roberts

Julia Link Roberts is an American scholar of gifted education. In 2004, she was described as one of the fifty-five most influential people in the field. She is the Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University, and the executive director of The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University and The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.

Education Roberts holds a BA from the University of Missouri, and an MA and a doctorate in education from Oklahoma State University. She received and was director of several grants from the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program to research the education of gifted students, including "Restructuring Primary Gifted Education", She led a ten-year advocacy campaign that resulted in establishing the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, a statewide residential school founded in 2007. She is President of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, having been elected to its executive committee in 2009. She has been a member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children since 1986, and has attended 13 World Conferences sponsored by the WCGTC, and was previously its treasurer. She is the co-author with Tracy Inman of the book Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom. Acorn Award (2011) by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education as the outstanding professor at a Kentucky four-year university 2012, National Association for Gifted Children Service Award