Research Areas

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

Global Issues
Seong Won Han

Seong Won Han

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

208 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

Sameer Honwad

Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: sameerho@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: I am interested in understanding how to build research-practice-community partnerships for building equitable learning environments.

Namsook Kim

Namsook Kim

Clinical Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

202 Baldy Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1094

Email: nkim3@buffalo.edu

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

Melinda Lemke

Melinda Lemke

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

206 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

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

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

214 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-2471

Email: corriest@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Administration/Management; Global Issues; Educator Preparation; Leadership; Leadership Training; Organizational Change; Urban Education; School and District Reform

Amy VanScoy

Amy VanScoy

Associate Professor
Information Science

320 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1487

Email: vanscoy@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Information Science; Library Science; Information behavior; Information practices; Diversity; Global Issues; Qualitative Research Methods

Noemi Waight

Noemi Waight

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Phone: 7166452455

Email: nwaight@buffalo.edu

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

X. Christine Wang

X. Christine Wang

Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office

348 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2379

Email: wangxc@buffalo.edu

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

Jinting Wu

Jinting Wu

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

205 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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