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, 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

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

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

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Immigration; citizenship education; educational equity; race and gender studies

Yakov Epstein, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Student engagement while learning conceptually challenging mathematics

Eugenia Etkina, 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, Associate 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

Drew Gitomer, Rose and Nicholas deMarzon Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Assessment and evaluation of teaching quality

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

Florence A. Hamrick, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Indiana
Higher education; college student affairs; student veterans; women in STEM

Sandra L. Harris, Professor Emerita of Psychology, SAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Education of autistic children

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, 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; 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 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

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

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

Catherine A. Lugg, 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

Matthew J. Mayer, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)

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 Emeritus 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

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 Emerita of Reading, GSE; Ph.D., New York
Literacy; reading and writing development

Daniel Tanner, Professor Emeritus 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, Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Iowa
Methodology; costing methods; program evaluation

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

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

Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Language use and learning in Latino communities; effects of citizenship status and educational policies

Toni M. Kempler, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Michigan
Motivation and instruction

Melinda Mangin, Assistant Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Instructional leadership; teacher leadership; education policy

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

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

Youngsuk Suh, Assistant Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Theory and application of psychometric methods in education and psychology

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