Director of Graduate Program: Professor William A. Firestone, 10 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7496, ext. 8231, email: william.firestone@gse.rutgers.edu)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Bruce D. Baker, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
State school finance policy; teacher labor markets and the economics of education

Steven Barnett, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan
Economics of education; educational policy; evaluation

Alisa A. Belzer, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Adult literacy education; professional development and policy

Erica Boling, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan State
Teacher learning; technology in teaching and learning; literacy education 

Clark Chinn, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Educational psychology

Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
Cross-cultural psychology with children and families; bilingualism in psychotherapy; resilience; public education through the media

Amy Cohen, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Mathematics

Mary Elizabeth Curran, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Issues in language education; multicultural education

Jimmy de la Torre, Associate 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

Eugenia Etkina, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical (Russia)
Mathematics and science education

Richard Falk, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Causal and quantitative reasoning; constraints on concept acquisition; 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, SAS; 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

Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Cognitive and instructional strategies

Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology, SAS;  Ph.D., Michigan
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; and stereotypes

Benjamin Justice, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Stanford
Religion and public education; social and civic education; education in nation-building

Barbara Lee, Professor of Human Resource Management, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio State
Policy; management industrial relations; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Pedagogy; composition theory; history of educational reform

Naftaly Minsky, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Hebrew (Israel)
Computer science

Lesley M. Morrow, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Fordham
Literacy development

Joseph Naus, Professor of Statistics, SAS; 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

Wallis Reid, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Columbia
Linguistics

Fred S. Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, SAS/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, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Mathematics education

Alan Rosenthal, Professor of Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Princeton
Political science

Beth Rubin, Associate 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; charter schools in Newark

Michael Saks, Professor of Mathematics, SAS/DIMACS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical foundation of the theory of computing; computational complexity; algorithms

Lawrence Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Medieval studies theory; pedagogy; humanities computing

Roberta Schorr, Associate Professor of Education and Academic Foundations, SAS; Ed.D., Rutgers
Teaching and learning of mathematics

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, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching; GSE; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Processes used in formal mathematical reasoning

Robert Wilson, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Mathematics

Nancy Wolff, 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

Cheryl McLean, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE, Ph.D., Georgia
Adolescent literacy; narrative inquiry; teacher education

Michael Mobley, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Multicultural counseling competencies; perfectionism; resilience; identity development models related to race and sexual orientation

Jennifer Rowsell, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., King's College London (UK)
Critical literacy; multiliteracies; multimodal literacy; new literacy studies

Tanja C. Sargent, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Sociology of education and comparative and international education; education reform and development in contemporary China

Timothy D. Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
In/out-of-school ocean/environmental science learning via computer devices