Research Areas

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

Politics of Education
Christopher P. Brown

Christopher P. Brown

Professor
Learning and Instruction

340 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Email: cpbrown5@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Assessment; Critical Policy Analysis; Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Leadership; Educational Policy; Educator Preparation; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods

Simone Fried

Simone Fried

Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

212 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451099

Email: sfried@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: school district policy, school boards, state departments of education, organizational theory, institutions, education policy, policy implementation, leadership, management, administration

Melinda Lemke

Melinda Lemke

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

206 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Email: malemke@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Critical Policy Analysis; Discourse analysis; Gender Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Legal Issues; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Wellness

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

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

Suzanne Rosenblith

110 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716)645-6640

Email: rosenbli@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Diversity; Legal Issues; Philosophy of Education; Politics of Education

Brenda L. Battleson White

Brenda L. Battleson White

Clinical Associate Professor
Information Science

325 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1486

Email: blb@buffalo.edu

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

Jinting Wu

Jinting Wu

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

205 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

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