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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2017 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Education 300  

Education 300

Degree Programs Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

The Ph.D. in education program does not offer a terminal master's degree. However, master's degrees are typically awarded prior to doctoral candidacy, given that program requirements are satisfied.

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Drew Gitomer, 10 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (848-932-0642)

Website: https://gse.rutgers.edu/academic-programs/phd-programs

Members of the Graduate Faculty

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

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

W. Steven Barnett, Board of Governors 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 Learning and Teaching, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Adult-literacy education, professional development, and policy

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

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)
Learning through inquiry; epistemic practices and epistemic cognition; argumentation and reasoning; collaborative learning; conceptual change

Chia-Yi Chiu, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Statistical theories and applications in educational measurement and testing

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

Mary Elizabeth Curran, Associate Dean for Local-Global Partnerships, GSE; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Language teacher education; community-engaged learning; global education

Richard De Lisi, University 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

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

Richard S. Falk, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Applied mathematics; numerical analysis

William A. Firestone, Distinguished 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

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

Martin Gliserman, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
Psychoanalysis/literature (narrative)

Janice Gobert, Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Toronto
Cognitive science; technology-based learning; intelligent tutoring systems for science; skill acquisition; performance assessment via log files; educational data mining

Susan L. Golbeck, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Cognitive development

Gerald A. Goldin, Distinguished 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

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
Latino college student experience; student development theory

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; urban/social justice teacher education

Rebecca Jordan, Professor of Environmental Education and Citizen Science, 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, 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, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Professor, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio State
Policy management; industrial relations; human resources

Michael L. Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, RWJMS; 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 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; history of education; queer theory

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
Instructional leadership; teacher leadership; LGBTQ-inclusive schools

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

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

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

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

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

Geraldine V. Oades-Sese, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director, Research Lab for Resilience and Early Childhood Development, 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, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Communication, technology, and mathematics learning and teaching; ethnomathematics

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

Mark G. Robson, Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs and Professor and Extension Specialist in Plant Biology and Pathology, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Horticulture; public health

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

Beth Rubin, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Educational equity in U.S. high schools

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

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

Tanja Carmel 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

Roberta Schorr, Associate Professor of Urban Education, FAS-N; Ed.D., Rutgers
Teaching and learning of mathematics

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

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

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

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

Nancy Wolff, Director, Bloustein Center for Survey Research, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Iowa State
Methodology; costing methods; program evaluation

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

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Mia Bay, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
African-American history; American intellectual and cultural history

Eli M. Silk, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, GSE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Educational psychology; STEM education

 
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