Research Areas

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

Ethnography
Megan M. Iantosca

Megan M. Iantosca

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

215 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1095

Email: mmhollan@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Achievement; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education; Sociology of Education

Mary McVee

Mary McVee

Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Phone: 716-645-2458

Email: mcvee@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Engineering Education; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Literacy; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Race, Inequality, and Education; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Methods

Ryan M. Rish

Ryan M. Rish

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Phone: 7166454042

Email: ryanrish@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Adolescent Literacies; Literacy Studies; Placemaking; Spatial Justice; ELA Teacher Education; Ethnography; Critical Digital Media; Young Adult Literature; Youth Identities

Sarah A. Robert

Sarah A. Robert

Professor
Learning and Instruction

342 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4046

Email: sarah@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Critical Policy Analysis; Gender Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Sociology of 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

Jinting Wu

Jinting Wu

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

205 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1081

Email: jintingw@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Cultural Studies; Disability Studies; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education