Full-Time Faculty

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Design-based research; inquiry-based and design-based learning; technology-enhanced learning environments; conceptions of teaching and learning.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Counseling psychology; adult development, life transitions counseling; life planning and consultation; personality; psychology of women.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban education; language minority students; issues of diversity and social justice in teaching; adolescent development; bilingualism; teacher education; and immigration.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Special education; literacy and math interventions for K-12 students with disabilities; culturally responsive pedagogy; international special education; data-based decision making; research and statistics.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Research on teaching and instruction, particularly the effects of class composition on student learning; research methodology; statistics.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Education statistics and research methods: meta-analysis, nonparametrics methods applied to analysis of single-case data, randomization tests, test construction, and performance assessment; assessment in higher education; teaching statistics; and teaching in higher education.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Pediatric health psychology; bereavement; the relationship between chronic/terminal illness and family coping; the human-animal bond; complexity science as a framework for counseling.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Critical pedagogy and transformative teaching in urban schools; action research, critical literacy, culturally empowering education, and urban teacher development.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Oral language development of English Language learners, literacy development in English for bilingual children.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
TESL/TEFL theory and practice; language teaching via storytelling, graphic novels, and digital media; critical literacy and project-based learning; teacher mentoring/coaching; language maintenance, shift, and recovery; bilingual, multicultural, and social justice education.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Educational leadership; private school administration; school psychology and counseling; teacher and administrator supervision & development; teacher preparation, research methods; MBTI & Leadership styles; moral development; philosophical foundations of education.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Latino adolescent sexuality; family functioning and adolescent health risk behaviors; racial/ethnic discrimination and minority status stress, obesity prevention and intervention among Latinos.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban Education; educational experiences of Latino students; immigration and education; bilingual education; unequal opportunity and access within US public schools; community organizing for school change; school and community partnerships; equity-minded school reform; cultural citizenship; race and identity; social and cultural theory; qualitative approaches to research (participatory action research, critical ethnography).

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Marital and family therapy; school-based family counseling; cognitive-behavioral therapy; research methods; psychological type; grief counseling; health psychology.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Adult development; life transitions and how people adapt to change; aging and eldership; the relationship between positive psychology and counseling/therapy; spiritual development across the life span; the application of indigenous wisdoms and cross-cultural methods to modern mental health and personal growth.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
International development in corporate, government and non-government, and education and health settings; communication and organizational change; preparation for higher education research and teaching; socioeconomic policy analysis; anthropological research within the critical hermeneutic tradition.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Racial diversity and educational outcomes; campus climate and culture; college choice and access; race and educational equity.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Leadership; governance; institutional performance.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Human rights education; bilingual and intercultural education of marginalized populations in the U.S. and worldwide; link between critical pedagogy and academic literacy; examination of youth violence and its link to schooling; action research methodologies.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Globalization and transnationalism; immigration and education; global citizenship; social and cultural theory; international comparative education; gender, education and social change; qualitative approaches to research.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Language and literacy; reading instruction; equitable teaching strategies in urban elementary schools.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Multimedia learning, mathematics education, and student motivation to learn.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Organizational development; leadership styles; management issues; women's issues; K-12 administration; K-12 teaching; language development; literacy.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Collaborative teaching; inclusive classrooms; special education teacher training.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Classroom relationships, curriculum, and teaching in English/language arts and social studies; authority, academic engagement, and diversity; the social ecology of classroom discourse; the impact of No Child Left Behind on teaching; qualitative research in classroom and schools.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Family psychology, ethical issues, and theoretical orientation in psychotherapy.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Social justice orientation and academic/civic engagement in urban youth; school relational and language climate; bilingualism; racial identity.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Literacy Development.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Research and practice in Catholic education; theories, research and issues in curriculum and instruction; philosophical foundations of education; spirituality of the educator; content analysis research methodology.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Emotional intelligence, cultural competency, resiliency, and social learning research approaches to learning; global and multicultural education, higher education administration, management and leadership; women and mentoring, diverse populations and schooling; strategic planning and data-driven decision-making; on-line learning and instruction.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban education; K-12 administration; instructional leadership; special education; family and community involvement.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Pedagogy; urban schools; teacher preparation, support, and retention; new teacher induction; discourse; professional communities and learning; education policy; school development and leadership.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Poverty, racism, and mental health in urban schools and communities; Immigrant youth cultural adjustment and negotiations; Asian Pacific Islander cultural conceptualizations of self, collectivistic coping, and mental health; multicultural school counseling, indigenous healing methods and perspectives; obesity prevention.

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Behavioral therapy and behavioral health/medicine; single subject experimental research; accountable mental health systems; iatrogenic issues in education, psychology and medicine.