Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Diversity
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: fboyd@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Culturally Sustaining STEM (CS-STEM) and Literacy Education; Adolescent Literacy learning; Disciplinary Literacy; Under Served and Under Represented students; Multimodality; Teachers Professional Learning; Teaching and Learning in Informal Contexts
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
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
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: I am interested in understanding how to build research-practice-community partnerships for building equitable learning environments.
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
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
Rebecca J. Frandina Jacob, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
402 Baldy Hall North Campus rjjacob@buffalo.edu
Buffalo, New York 14260
Phone: 716-645-1106
Email: rjjacob@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; Multicultural Competence; School and Community Partnerships; Mental Health; Rehabilitation Counseling; School Counseling; Social and Emotional Development; Special Education
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
Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Big Data; Access and Equity; Achievement; Assessment; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Mathematics Education; Educational Policy; Immigrant Issues; Evaluation; Gamification; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Race, Inequality, and Education; Psychometrics; Online and Distance Learning; Professional / Staff Development; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues; School and District Reform
Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
573 Baldy Hall
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: cuking@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Racial Literacy; Diverse Literature for Children and Young Adolescents; Dialogic Space; Critical Literacy; Teaching Banned Books
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Diversity; Social Studies Education; History of Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
403 Baldy Hall
Buffalo, New York 14260
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
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: My research interests broadly explore the impact of race, ethnicity, and culture (REC) on counseling & counselor education, anti-racist school counseling practice, and culturally relevant and innovative counseling approaches (i.e, gaming, Hip-Hop).
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
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
Professor
Learning and Instruction
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
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
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
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: My research focuses on the psychosocial wellness of communities minoritized by race, sexual orientation, and gender identity (i.e., queer people of color or QPOC), & increasing retention rates of students of color in graduate psychology programs.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Department of Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 412 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1000
Buffalo, New York 14260
Phone: (716) 645-1118
Email: omayramu@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; Cultural Competence; Immigrant Issues; Mental Health; Social Justice; Rehabilitation Counseling
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
Research Areas: Diversity; Legal Issues; Philosophy of Education; Politics of Education
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: srsantar@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; Immigrant Issues; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Legal Issues
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Equity and Justice in STEM Education; Climate Change Education; Environmental Justice Education
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Curriculum and Instruction; Assessment; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Discourse analysis; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Mathematics Education; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Multicultural Competence; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; STEM education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice; Multimodality; Problem Based Learning; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Clinical Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Leadership; Race, Inequality, and Education; Urban Education; School Counseling
Associate Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Information Science; Library Science; Information behavior; Information practices; Diversity; Global Issues; Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Assessment; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Science Education; Leadership; Learning Design; Race, Inequality, and Education; Problem Based Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office
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
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
Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Access and Equity; English Education; Diversity; Educator Preparation; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Urban Education