Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Equity and Poverty
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
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: My research primarily explores how teachers and students learn with and use multimodal literacies—especially digital video—as teaching and learning tools in classroom settings.
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
Clinical Professor
Learning and Instruction
210 Kimball Tower, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260
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
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
207 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Email: phoebeho@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Child and Adolescent Development; Equity and Poverty; Immigrant Issues; Family; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Sociology of Education
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
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
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
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
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
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
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