Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
ESL/ENL/Bilingual
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Racism and AntiBlackness
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
Clinical Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Global Issues; Immigrant Issues; Multicultural Competence; Higher Education; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Online and Distance Learning
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
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
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
Clinical Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
248 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1111
Email: luistosa@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Leadership; Race, Inequality, and Education; Urban Education; School Counseling