Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Curriculum and Instruction
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Discourse analysis; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Writing Instruction; Professional / Staff Development
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Racism and AntiBlackness
Professor
Learning and Instruction
329A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-2455
Email: mpboyd@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Elementary Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Literacy; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; English Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Equity and Poverty; Educational technology; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality; Qualitative Research Methods
Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
B01A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1058
Email: ashleeeb@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Assessment; Literacy; Reading Instruction
Clinical Professor
Learning and Instruction
210 Kimball Tower, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4034
Email: etopio@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Early Childhood Education; Equity and Poverty; Music Education; Urban Education; Virtual Reality
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
334 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Email: rg66@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; English Education; Literacy; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Urban Education
Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; English Education; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Literacy; Educational Change; Educational Leadership; Educator Preparation; Leadership; Higher Education; Online and Distance Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Social and Emotional Development
Professor
Learning and Instruction
337 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4058
Email: ekearney@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Educational Linguistics; Language Teaching and Learning; Interculturality; Design of Learning Environments (VR); Teacher Preparation and Learning
Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Learning and Instruction
253 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1127
Email: sunhakim@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Big Data; Access and Equity; Achievement; Assessment; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Mathematics Education; Educational Policy; Immigrant Issues; Evaluation; Gamification; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Race, Inequality, and Education; Psychometrics; Online and Distance Learning; Professional / Staff Development; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues; School and District Reform
Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
147 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Email: cuking@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Racial Literacy; Diverse Literature for Children and Young Adolescents; Dialogic Space; Critical Literacy; Teaching Banned Books
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Latinx/Chicanx K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation; Latinx Education and Immigration in the U.S. South; Teacher Identity and Subjectivity; Social Studies Education; Critical Geography; (post)Qualitative Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
336 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4067
Email: schindel@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Equity and Justice in STEM Education; Climate Change Education; Environmental Justice Education
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
347 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4030
Email: jiwonson@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Curriculum and Instruction; Assessment; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Discourse analysis; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Mathematics Education; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Multicultural Competence; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; STEM education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice; Multimodality; Problem Based Learning; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
214 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-2471
Email: corriest@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Administration/Management; Global Issues; Educator Preparation; Leadership; Leadership Training; Organizational Change; Urban Education; School and District Reform
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Assessment; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Science Education; Leadership; Learning Design; Race, Inequality, and Education; Problem Based Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Child and Adolescent Development; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Curriculum and Instruction; Design Experiments; International Education; Literacy; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Immigrant Issues; Ethnography; Science Education; Learning Communities; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Educational data science; data science education; computational research methods; mixed research methods; natural language processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence in education; design-based research; constructionism