Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy,
Director of Graduate Program: Professor William Firestone, 10 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7496, ext. 8104)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Bruce D. Baker, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ed.D., Teachers College
State school finance policy; teacher labor markets and the economics of education
W. Steven Barnett, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan
Economics of education; educational policy; evaluation
Dan Battey, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Professional development; elementary mathematics; equity; racialization
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
Gregory Camilli, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Colorado
Statistics and measurement
Clark A. 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 and public education through
the media
Amy Cohen-Corwin, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; 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, 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
Yakov Epstein, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Student engagement while learning conceptually challenging mathematics
Eugenia Etkina, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Moscow State Pedagogical (Russia)
Mathematics and science education
Richard S. Falk, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Applied mathematics; numerical analysis
William A. Firestone, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Chicago
Educational policy; policy implementation; math standards implementation
Nydia Flores, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching and Spanish, GSE/SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Sociolinguistics; bilingualism
Rochel Gelman, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Causal and quantitative reasoning; constraints on concept acquisition; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
Psychoanalysis/literature (narrative)
Susan L. Golbeck, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Cognitive development
Gerald A. Goldin, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematics education; theoretical physics
Sandra L. Harris, Professor of Psychology, SAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Education of autistic children
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE;
Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Cognitive and instructional strategies
Nora Hyland, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champain)
Race, class, gender, and sexuality within the sociocultural context of schools
Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; 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
Melanie
R. Kuhn, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D.,
Georgia
Fluency development; struggling readers; technology-related
literacy
Barbara A. Lee, Professor of Human Resource
Management, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio State
Policy management industrial
relations and human resources
Michael L. Lewis, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Developmental psychology
Barbara Louis, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Nature of intelligence; giftedness
Catherine
A. Lugg, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and
Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Education policy/politics
Carolyn A. Maher, Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Mathematics education
Lorraine D. McCune, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental psychology
Richard
E. 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 M. O'Donnell, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Texas Christian
Educational psychology
Douglas
A. 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
Mark G. Robson, Professor of Entomology and Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Horticulture; public health
Gianine Rosenblum, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Development of body image and the relation of body image to psychological adjustment
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, 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; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Theory of computation; external set theory; partially
ordered sets; graph theory
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, FAS-N;
Ed.D., Rutgers
Teaching and learning of mathematics
Dorothy Strickland, State of New Jersey Professor of Reading, GSE; Ph.D., New York
Literacy; reading and writing development
Daniel Tanner, Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Ohio State
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., Columbia
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, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health,
EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Iowa
Methodology; costing methods; program evaluation
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Thea
Renda Abu El-Haj, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy,
and Administration, GSE; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania
Immigration; citizenship education; educational equity; race and gender
studies
Roland V. Anglin, Director, Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Chicago
Role of education in community and economic development
Chia-Yi Chiu, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Cognitive diagnosis modeling with focus on profile classifications
Susan Dougherty, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education, GSE; Ph.D., Boston
Explanatory talk; fathers as literacy mentors; literacy teacher training
Ravit Golan Duncan, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Learning; curriculum design; teacher preparation in science education
Nydia Flores, Assistant Professor of Learning and
Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., CUNY Sociolinguistics; bilingualism, Spanish
sociolinguistics
Ebelia Hernández, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Indiana
Latino college student experience; student development theory
Toni M. Kempler, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan
Motivation and instruction
Edward Liu, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Harvard
Teacher hiring and retention; school reform; leadership; educational policy
Matthew J. Mayer, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)
School violence prevention, taking a transdisciplinary approach
Cheryl A. McLean, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Georgia
Adolescent literacy; narrative inquiry; and teacher education
Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Warwick
Mathematical reasoning, argumentation, and proof
Michael Mobley, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Counseling and 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 Carmel Sargent, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Sociology of education; comparative and international education; China
Lisa B. Warner, Senior Math Specialist in Urban Education, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Development of students' mathematical ideas; teacher actions and engagement
Timothy D. Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Science Education, GSE/IMCS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
In/out-of-school ocean/environmental science learning via computer devices