Research Areas

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

International Education
Seong Won Han

Seong Won Han

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

208 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1080

Email: seongwon@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Big Data; Achievement; International Education; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Higher Education; STEM education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Quantitative Research Methods; Sociology of Education

Sameer Honwad

Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

303A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: sameerho@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: I am interested in understanding how to build research-practice-community partnerships for building equitable learning environments.

Namsook Kim

Namsook Kim

Clinical Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

202 Baldy Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1094

Email: nkim3@buffalo.edu

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

Jaekyung Lee

Jaekyung Lee

Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Educational Leadership and Policy

250 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 716-645-1132

Email: jl224@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Big Data; Access and Equity; International Education; Educational Policy; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Leadership; STEM education; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Psychometrics; Quantitative Research Methods; Program Evaluation; Social and Emotional Development

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

Ji-Won Son

Ji-Won Son

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

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