Research Areas

Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.

Elementary Education
Blythe E. Anderson

Blythe E. Anderson

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

329B Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166454028

Email: blythean@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Discourse analysis; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Writing Instruction; Professional / Staff Development

Maureen P. Boyd

Maureen P. Boyd

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

Christopher P. Brown

Christopher P. Brown

Professor
Learning and Instruction

340 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Email: cpbrown5@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Assessment; Critical Policy Analysis; Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Leadership; Educational Policy; Educator Preparation; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods

Ashlee A. Campbell

Ashlee A. Campbell

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

Kristin Cipollone

Kristin Cipollone

Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

205 Kimball Tower, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166454061

Email: knc9@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: My research explores the (re)production of inequality in and through schooling. I study the preparation of teachers, community-engaged teacher preparation, and school transition processes and how they are used to seek and maintain advantage.

Brianna Devlin

Brianna Devlin

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

346 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166452455

Email: bdevlin@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Mathematics Education; School and Community Partnerships; Universal Design

Christina King

Christina King

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

Lilliam M. Malave Lopez

Lilliam M. Malave Lopez

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

307 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4060

Email: malave@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Charter Schools; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Educator Preparation; Multicultural Competence; Learning Communities; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Sociolinguistics; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods

John Z. Strong

John Z. Strong

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

329C Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4044

Email: jstrong3@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Achievement; Assessment; Elementary Education; English Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Design Experiments; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Writing Instruction; Measurements; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods

X. Christine Wang

X. Christine Wang

Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office

348 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2379

Email: wangxc@buffalo.edu

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