Dr. Chara Bohan

Curriculum and instruction, education history with a focus on gender, race, and biography, education inquiry and research, and social science and history education.

Dr. Deron Boyles

School-corporate nexes, epistemology, pragmatism and the philosophy of John Dewey and critical theory.

Dr. Kristina Brezicha

Democratic education, diverse students’ feelings of belonging and citizenship education; teacher/leadership relationships; educational policy.

Dr. Kristen Buras

Critical theory, critical race theory, cultural studies, educational policy and reform in urban contexts, history, curriculum, educational movements on the left and right, education in the U.S. south and global south.

Dr. Patricia Carter

Multi-cultural education, social and cultural foundations of education, cultural studies in education, and gender politics and policy of education.

Dr. Bill Curlette

Meta-analysis, survey research, program evaluation, stress coping, and Adlerian psychology.

Dr. Jennifer Esposito

Urban education, popular culture, race, gender, class, and sexuality identity negotiation.

Dr. Kevin Fortner

Teacher effectiveness, research design and program evaluation.

Dr. Janice Fournillier

Teaching and learning in non-school contexts, scholarship of teaching and learning, teacher education and professional development, program evaluation using qualitative research methodologies, Qualitative research methodologies.

Dr. Sheryl Gowen

Program evaluation, survey research, and policy analysis.

Dr. James Kahrs

Leadership in instructional supervision, the cohort model of instruction, internships, principal induction and development.

Dr. Jodi Kaufmann

Narrative, auto-ethnography, the re-production of gender, the relation between theory and knowledge production.

Dr. Joyce King

The role of cultural knowledge, diaspora literacy and heritage knowledge in teaching and teacher preparation, Black teachers’ emancipatory pedagogy, curriculum change, black studies theorizing in education/Black education, and global education.

Dr. Richard Lakes

Educational policy, workforce development, critical pedagogy, and globalization.

Dr. Audrey Leroux

Quantitative research methods with a particular focus on evaluating extensions of multilevel models for complex hierarchical data structures and evaluating methods in computerized adaptive testing.

Dr. Hongli Li

Educational measurement and quantitative methods, cognitive diagnostic modeling, assessment of English language learners, and language assessment.

Dr. Gregory Middleton

Principal and school leadership team development; literacy achievement for all students, especially Black and Brown boys; social justice and equity for all students; social and emotional learning.

Dr. Sheryl Cowart Moss

Aesthetics in teaching and leadership, arts-based leadership, tensions in policy initiatives and interpersonal dynamics, inclusive leadership.

Dr. Chris Oshima

Educational measurement and statistics, especially in the areas of Item Response Theory and Differential Item Functioning.

Dr. Will Cantey Rumbaugh

Organizational development; strategic/continuous improvement; leadership/team transformation.

Dr. Nick Sauers

K-12 leadership, school technology leadership, and social media in schools.

Dr. Yinying Wang

Leaders’ decision making and neuroscience, network analysis in educational leadership and policy, technology in educational leadership and policy, text mining.