Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of
PhilosophyDirector of Graduate Program: Associate Professor Keith
Weber, 10 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (848-932-0804)
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
Dan Battey, Associate 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 (Boulder)
Educational statistics and measurement
Clark A. Chinn, 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
Ravit Golan Duncan, Associate Professor of Learning and
Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Learning; curriculum design; teacher preparation in science
education
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; qualitative
methods
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 DeMarzo Chair 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
Nora Hyland, Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching,
GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Race, class, gender, and sexuality within the sociocultural
context of schools
Rebecca Jordan, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution,
and Natural Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Evolution of behavior; environmental education and citizen
science
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
Bahman Kalantari, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D.,
Minnesota
Mathematical programming; matrix scaling; duality theory;
approximation algorithms; approximation of s; polynomial root-finding
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, 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, 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
Melinda Mangin, Associate Professor of Education, GSE;
Ph.D., Rutgers
Instructional leadership; teacher leadership; education
policy
Matthew J. Mayer, Associate Professor of Educational
Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)
School violence prevention, taking a transdisciplinary
approach
Lorraine D. McCune, Professor of Educational Psychology,
GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental psychology
Cheryl A. McLean, Associate Professor of Learning and
Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Georgia
Adolescent literacy; narrative inquiry; and teacher
education
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
Ebelia Hernández, Assistant Professor of Educational
Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Indiana
Latino college student experience; student development
theory
Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos, Assistant Professor of Learning and
Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Warwick
Mathematical reasoning, argumentation, and proof
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
Lisa B. Warner, Senior Math Specialist in Urban Education,
FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Development of students' mathematical ideas; teacher actions
and engagement
Sheila Witherspoon, Assistant Professor of Educational
Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., South Carolina
Effectiveness of pipeline programs
Dake Zhang, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology,
GSE; Ph.D., Purdue
Special education