F. Chris Curran, Ph.D.
Co-Director – Educational Leadership
Research Interests:
Educational Equity, School Safety, Early Childhood Education, Policy Analysis, Racial Disparities in Educational Outcomes
Dennis A. Kramer II, Ph.D.
Co-Director – Higher Education
Research Interests:
Postsecondary Education, Public Policy, Decision-Making, Economics of Education
Catherine G. Atria, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Educational Leadership
Research Interests:
Teacher Mentoring, Observation and Evaluation, Program Development, Personnel Management
Nicholas A. Gage, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Special Education
Research Interests:
Special Education, Statistical Analysis, Single-Subject Research, Positive Behavior Support (PBS), and Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
Catherine Paolucci, Ed.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Mathematics Education
Research Interests:
Program and Policy Development, Math Education
Christopher Redding, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Educational Leadership
Research Interests:
School Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making
Hector H. Sandoval, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Economics
Research Interests:
Applied microeconomics, education, social interactions, and poverty.
Perihan Saygin, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Economics
Research Interests:
Labor economics, economics of education, social and economic networks
Cecilia “CC” Suarez, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Agricultural Education and Communication
Research Interests:
Culturally relevant leadership practices
Taryrn Brown, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Teaching and Learning
Research Interests:
Black feminism, narrative analysis, intersectionality, critical race theory, and Black girlhood studies
Jaime Ahlberg, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate – Philosophy
Research Interests:
Social and political philosophy, schooling and disability, educational rights
Advisory Board
David Miller, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Director of School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education
Research Interests:
Research and evaluation methodology
Patricia Snyder, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Director of the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Research Interests:
Early childhood education
Justin Ortagus, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Director of the Institute of Higher Education
Research Interests:
Higher education policy
Richard Romano, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Gerald L. Gunter Memorial Professor, Department of Economics
Research Interests:
Education policy, public economics, imperfect competition
Ester de Jong, Ed.D.
Advisory Board – Director of the School of Teaching and Learning and the Center for Equity in Education
Research Interests:
Bilingual and cultural education
Mary Brownell, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Director of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center
Research Interests:
Special education and teacher policy
Philip E. Poekert, Ph.D.
Advisory Board – Director of the Lastinger Center for Learning
Research Interests:
Education policy, professional development, big data in education