Research Areas

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

Sociolinguistics
Janina Brutt-Griffler

Janina Brutt-Griffler

Professor
Learning and Instruction

308 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4066

Email: bruttg@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: English Education; International Education; Educational Policy; Multicultural Competence; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Sociolinguistics; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods

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

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