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. Janie Copple

Qualitative research methodologies and pedagogies, Narrative inquiry, Autoethnography, Motherhood studies, Puberty education

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. Michael Frisby

Psychometrics, structural equation modeling, applied statistics, statistical programming, critical consciousness, critical quantitative studies

Dr. Sheryl Gowen

Program evaluation, survey research, and policy analysis.

Dr. David Johnson

Sociology of Higher Education, State politics and policy

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. Qiana Lachaud

Epistemological racial justice, critical race consciousness, pedagogy

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. Will Cantey Rumbaugh

Urban school leadership; leader beliefs and values; equity-focused leadership; leadership development in international contexts.

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.

Dr. Casey Wong

Teaching and learning for justice, pedagogies of love, abolition, decolonization, racial capitalism, critical feminisms, raciolinguistics, co-conspiracy and solidarity, critical and culturally sustaining pedagogies