Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Higher Education
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
361A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4076
Email: ychang28@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Engineering Education; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Digital Media and Learning; Digital literacy; Cognitive Psychology; Cultural Competence; Educational technology; Educator Preparation; Higher Education; Learning Communities; STEM education; Learning Design; Learning Sciences; Problem Based Learning; Online and Distance Learning; Universal Design; Professional / Staff Development
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
216 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Email: rcreps@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Educational Policy; Higher Education
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
218 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1096
Email: nbarnett@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Administration/Management; Equity and Poverty; Educational Change; Educational Leadership; Educational Policy; Economics of Education; Leadership; Gamification; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Organizational Change; Urban Education; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Program Evaluation; School Counseling; Sociology of Education
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
Assistant Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Information Science; Library Science; Higher Education; Online and Distance Learning; Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
215 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
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
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
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
Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Educational Leadership and Policy
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
Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Dean's Office
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Cultural Competence and Humility; Administration/Management; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Multicultural Competence; Leadership; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice; Organizational Change
Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Cultural Competence and Humility; Diversity; Clinical and Career Counseling; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Cultural Competence; LGBT+ Studies; Multicultural Competence; Queer and Trans People and Perspectives; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Mental Health; Social Justice; Training and Supervision
Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
221 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1091
Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: student-parents; work-life integration; faculty and staff work; organizational change
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Email: srsantar@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; Immigrant Issues; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Legal Issues
Clinical Associate Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Information Science; Library Science; Information behavior; Assessment; Information practices; Information literacy; Diversity; Digital literacy; Multicultural Competence; Higher Education; Information Literacy; Online and Distance Learning; Politics of Education; Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Cultural Competence and Humility; Critical Policy Analysis; Diversity; Educational Change; Discourse analysis; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Meditation, Mental Health and Wellness; Mental Health; Mindfulness; Social Justice; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Wellness