Research Areas

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

Social Studies Education
Brittany Jones

Brittany Jones

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

501 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451847

Email: bjones4@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Social studies education, anti-racist social studies, Critical pedagogies, Discourse Analysis, Racialized Emotions and Affects

LaGarrett King

LaGarrett King

Professor
Learning and Instruction

505 Baldy Hall
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: lagarret@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Diversity; Social Studies Education; History of Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice

Tim Monreal

Tim Monreal

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

341 Foster Hall
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166455042

Email: tpmonrea@buffalo.edu

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

Yilang Zhao

Yilang Zhao

Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

251 Foster Hall
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: 7166451130

Email: yilangzh@buffalo.edu

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