Research Areas

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

Equity and Poverty
Fenice B. Boyd

Fenice B. Boyd

Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

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

David L. Bruce

David L. Bruce

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: dlbruce@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; English Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Equity and Poverty; Educational technology; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality; Qualitative Research Methods

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

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

Elisabeth Etopio

Elisabeth Etopio

Clinical Professor
Learning and Instruction

210 Kimball Tower, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4034

Email: etopio@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Early Childhood Education; Equity and Poverty; Music Education; Urban Education; Virtual Reality

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

Megan M. Iantosca

Megan M. Iantosca

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

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

Omayra Muñoz-Lorenzo

Omayra Muñoz-Lorenzo

Clinical Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

202C Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

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

Raechele L. Pope

Raechele L. Pope

Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Dean's Office

Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451098

Email: rlpope@buffalo.edu

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

Scott A. Sabella

Scott A. Sabella

Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

202A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1123

Email: sasabell@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Clinical/counselor supervision, program management in rehabilitation agencies, community participation of people with disabilities, supports for individuals with brain injuries, psychometrics, motivational interviewing interventions

Alexandra E. Schindel

Alexandra E. Schindel

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

336 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4067

Email: schindel@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Equity and Justice in STEM Education; Climate Change Education; Environmental Justice Education

Ji-Won Son

Ji-Won Son

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

347 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4030

Email: jiwonson@buffalo.edu

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

Yilang Zhao

Yilang Zhao

Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

251 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451130

Email: yilangzh@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Educational data science; data science education; computational research methods; mixed research methods; natural language processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence in education; design-based research; constructionism