Directors of Graduate Program: 

Ebelia Hernández (848-932-0818; email: ebelia.hernandez@gse.rutgers.edu); 

Tanja Sargent (848-932-0732; email:  tanja.sargent@gse.rutgers.edu); 

Juan Pablo Mejia Ramos (848-932-0806, email:  pablo.mejia@gse.rutgers.edu)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

W. Steven Barnett, Board of Governors Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Economics of education; educational policy; evaluation

Dan Battey, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Professional development; elementary mathematics; equity; racialization

Alisa A. Belzer, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Adult literacy education; professional development; policy

Wanda J. Blanchett, Dean and Distinguished Professor, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Race and equity in education; special education; teacher education

Clark A. Chinn, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Learning through inquiry; epistemic practices and epistemic cognition; argumentation and reasoning; collaborative learning; conceptual change

Mary E. Curran, Associate Dean for Local-Global Partnerships, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Language teacher education; community-engaged learning; global education

Karishma Desai, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia
Gender; anthropology of education; feminist theory; critical development studies; childhood and youth

Ravit Golan Duncan, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Learning; curriculum design; teacher preparation in science education

Sarah Gallo, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Anthropologist of education of bilingual and immigrant education

Nichole Garcia, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Higher education; women of color; feminisms; critical race theory; Latinx communities

Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Indiana (Bloomington)
History; Black colleges; philanthropy; leadership; race and equity

Drew Gitomer, Rose and Nicholas DeMarzo Chair in Education and Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Measurement of teaching quality; teacher knowledge; educational policy; instructional artifacts; classroom artifacts

Martin Gliserman, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana (Bloomington)
Psychoanalysis/literature (narrative); cognitive science; technology-based learning; intelligent tutoring systems for science; skill acquisition; performance assessment via log files; educational data mining

Gerald A. Goldin, Distinguished Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematics education; theoretical physics

Judith R. Harrison, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Texas A&M
Special education; services for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders

Ebelia Hernández, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Indiana (Bloomington)
Latinx college student experience; student development; critical methodologies

Nora E. Hyland, Associate Dean and Faculty Director of Teacher Education, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Race, class, gender, and sexuality within the sociocultural context of schools; urban/social justice teacher education

Lee Jussim, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; stereotypes

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

Lauren Leigh Kelly, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia
Hip-hop literacies; critical consciousness; culturally responsive pedagogy

Barbara A. Lee, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio State
Employment discrimination; higher education law

Michael L. Lewis, University Distinguished Professor, GSAPP; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Developmental psychology

Carrie Lobman, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia
Teacher education; performatory approaches to learning and teaching; early childhood education

Barbara R. Louis, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Nature of intelligence; giftedness

Carolyn A. Maher, Distinguished Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Mathematics education

Melinda Mangin, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Rutgers 

Teacher leadership, instructional leadership, professional learning, LGBTQ-inclusive practices, and trans studies in education.

Matthew J. Mayer, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)
School violence prevention; taking a transdisciplinary approach; developmental psychology

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

Juan Pablo Mejía Ramos, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Warwick (UK)
Mathematical reasoning; argumentation; proof

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

Nicole Mirra, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Adolescent critical and digital literacies; youth civic engagement; teacher education

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

Joseph I. Naus, Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Statistics and probability

Geraldine Oades-Sese, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS; Ph.D., Fordham

Angela M. O'Donnell, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Texas Christian
Educational psychology; collaborative and cooperative learning

Arthur B. Powell, Professor of Urban Education, SAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Communication; technology; mathematics learning and teaching; ethnomathematics; rational numbers

Fred S. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, SAS/DIMACS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision-making; measurement theory

Mark G. Robson, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Plant Biology, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Horticulture; public health

Joseph Rosenstein, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Mathematics education

Sharon K. Ryan, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Columbia
Early childhood education

Michael E. Saks, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, SAS/DIMACS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theory of computation; external set theory; partially ordered sets; graph theory

Tanja C. Sargent, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Sociology of education; comparative and international education; China

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

Saundra M. Tomlinson-Clarke, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Florida State
Multicultural, psychosocial development

Carl E. Van Horn, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Ohio State
Employment policy and public policy

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

Dake Zhang, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Purdue
Special education

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Carrie Ferraro, Associate Director of Marine and Coastal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Data literacy; STEM education; workforce development

Amy D. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Examining teacher preparation program structures; curriculum; instruction

Michelle Macchia, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice/Partnerships, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Social justice; teacher-led collaborative inquiry; early literacy; inequity

Christelle Palpacuer-Lee, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Teacher development; global education; discourse analysis; arts-based research

Maqueda Randall-Weeks, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Harvard
Strategic educator engagement in policy and instructional practice reforms

Julia Sass Rubin, Associate Professor, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Parental education policy activism and impact of charter schools on host communities

David Shernoff, Associate Professor of School Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Chicago
Influences on student engagement to learn, such as professional development

Michelle Van Noy, Assistant Research Professor, SMLR; Ph.D., Columbia
Education and work; community colleges; career decisions; credentials