Director of Graduate Program: Professor Clark Chinn, 10 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7496, ext. 8104)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Steven Barnett, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan
Economics of education; educational policy; evaluation
Harold Beder, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ed.D., Columbia
Adult literacy policy; adult education
Alisa A. Belzer, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Adult literacy education; professional development and policy
Margaret Bendersky, Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Washington
Effects of early biological and environmental risks on development
Erica Boling, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan State
Teacher learning; technology in teaching and learning
Gregory Camilli, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Colorado
Statistics and measurement
Clark Chinn, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Educational psychology
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
Cross-cultural psychology with children and families; bilingualism in psychotherapy; resilience; and public education through the media
Amy Cohen, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Mathematics
Mary Elizabeth Curran, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Issues in language education; multicultural education
Jimmy de la Torre, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Psychological and educational testing and measurement
Richard De Lisi, Dean and Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Catholic
Developmental psychology
Richard Duschl, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Maryland
History and philosophy of science and science teaching; argumentation; assessment
Eugenia Etkina, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical
Mathematics and science education
Richard Falk, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Applied mathematics; numerical analysis
William Firestone, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Chicago
Educational policy; policy implementation; math standards implementation
Rochel Gelman, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Causal and quantitative reasoning; constraints on concept acquisition; and the role of informal environments
James M. Giarelli, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Florida
Educational philosophy and policy; ethics and education; civic education
Martin Gliserman, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Indiana
Psychoanalysis/literature (narrative)
Susan Golbeck, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Cognitive development
Gerald Goldin, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematics education; mathematics; theoretical physics
Sandra Harris, Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB/GSAPP; Ph.D., New York (Buffalo)
Education of autistic children
Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Cognitive and instructional strategies
Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; and stereotypes
Benjamin Justice, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Stanford
Religion and public education; social and civic education; and education in nation building
Melanie R. Kuhn, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Georgia
Reading fluency development
Barbara Lee, Professor of Human Resource Management, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio State
Policy; management industrial relations and human resources
Michael Lewis, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Developmental psychology
Barbara Louis, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Giftedness in young children; perspective taking; theory of mind
Catherine Lugg, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Education policy/politics
Carolyn Maher, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Mathematics education
Lorraine McCune, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental psychology
Richard Miller, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Pedagogy; composition theory; history of educational reform
Naftaly Minsky, Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Hebrew
Computer science
Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Fordham
Literacy development
Joseph Naus, Professor of Statistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Statistics and probability
Angela O'Donnell, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Texas Christian
Educational psychology
Douglas Penfield, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Educational statistics and measurement
Arthur B. Powell, Associate Professor of Education and Academic Foundations; FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Role of language processes in learning mathematics; development of students' mathematical ideas and forms of reasoning
Manya J. Raman, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Mathematics education: proofs and justification in calculus
Wallis Reid, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
Linguistics
Fred S. Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB/DIMACS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making; measurement theory
Gianine Rosenblum, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Adolescent development; developmental psychopathology
Joseph Rosenstein, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Mathematics education
Alan Rosenthal, Professor of Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Princeton
Political science
Beth Rubin, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Educational equity in U.S. high schools
Sharon K.Ryan, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
Early childhood education
Alan Sadovnik, Professor of Education and Sociology, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
State takeover of school districts in New Jersey; school choice policies nationally and in New Jersey; and charter schools in Newark
Michael Saks, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB/DIMACS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical foundation of the theory of computing; computational complexity; and algorithms
Larry Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Medieval studies theory; pedagogy; humanities computing
Roberta Schorr, Associate Professor of Education and Academic Foundations, FAS-NB, Ed/D., Rutgers
Teaching and learning of mathematics
Jeffrey K. Smith, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Chicago
Measurement; research methods
Dorothy Strickland, State of New Jersey Professor of Reading, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., New York
Literacy: reading and writing development
Daniel Tanner, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Ohio State
Educational policy (curriculum policy at federal, state, and local levels)
Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Florida State
Multicultural, psychosocial development
Carl Van Horn, Professor of Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Ohio State
Employment policy and public policy
Stanley Vitello, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Connecticut
Special education law and policy
Keith H. Weber, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching; GSE; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Processes used in formal mathematical reasoning
Robert Wilson, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Mathematics
Nancy Wolff, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Iowa
Methodology; costing methods; program evaluation
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Nydia Flores, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching; GSE; Ph.D., CUNY
Sociolinguistics; bilingualism; Spanish sociolinguistics
Edward Liu, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration; GSE; Ph.D., Harvard
Teacher hiring and retention; school reform; leadership; educational policy
Jennifer Rowsell, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., King's College London
Critical literacy; multiliteracies; multimodal literacy; new literacy studies
