Education Department

  • Judy Sharkey Education/Women's & Gender Studies; Department Chair
    Research Interests: Citizenship, Community-based participatory pedagogies; education, immigration, and citizenship, Comparative Education, Critical sociocultural approaches to language and literacies, Immigration, Latin America, Pedagogies and scholarship of second language teacher education, Public pedagogy and feminist theory, Teacher learning and development across the career span
  • Paula Salvio Education/Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies; Professor
    Research Interests: Aesthetic responses to war and conflict, Curriculum theory and philosophy of education, Public pedagogy and feminist theory, Teaching and learning in the context of transitional justice, The impact of traumatic historical events on teaching and learning
  • Vincent Connelly Education; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Issues and policy regarding the preparation, recruitment, and retention of special education personnel
  • Andrew Coppens Education; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Children's collaboration, learning, motivation, and prosocial helping, Culture and child development, Latino families, Middle-class families
  • Leslie Couse Education; Professor
    Research Interests: Inclusive early childhood teacher education, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Leadership development, Teacher learning and development across the career span, Technology Integration in Education
  • Suzanne Graham Education; Associate Professor|
    Research Interests: Longitudinal data analysis, Multilevel Modeling and Mathematics Education, Quantitative methodology
  • Ruth Wharton-McDonald Education; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Children's Literature, Classroom Instruction, Early literacy development, K-12 literacy, Social justice education