Research Areas

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

Child and Adolescent Development
Myles S. Faith

Myles S. Faith

Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

261C Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1124

Email: mfaith@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Bullying; Child and Adolescent Development; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Eating Disorders; Family; Mental Health; Measurements; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods; School Counseling; Social and Emotional Development; Wellness

Stephanie S. Fredrick

Stephanie S. Fredrick

Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

161A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1141

Email: ssfredri@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Bullying and cyberbullying; school climate; school-based mental health; adolescent media use and digital citizenship

Katheryne T. Leigh-Osroosh

Katheryne T. Leigh-Osroosh

Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

246 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Email: kosroosh@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: qualitative methods; critical phenomenology; community-engaged and action research within counselor education; community-driven interventions within k-12 schools; Black and Indigenous students experiences within education

Sandro M. Sodano

Sandro M. Sodano

Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

244 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1131

Email: smsodano@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Assessment; Child and Adolescent Development; Clinical and Career Counseling; Mental Health; Measurements; Psychometrics; Quantitative Research Methods; Program Evaluation

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