Research Areas

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

Urban Education
Kristin Cipollone

Kristin Cipollone

Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

520 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: 7166454061

Email: knc9@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: My research explores the (re)production of inequality in and through schooling. I study the preparation of teachers, community-engaged teacher preparation, and school transition processes and how they are used to seek and maintain advantage.

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

478 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

501 Baldy Hall North 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

Rubén A. González

Rubén A. González

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction


Buffalo, New York 14260

Email: rg66@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; English Education; Literacy; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Urban Education

Megan M. Iantosca

Megan M. Iantosca

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

477 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

Alexandra E. Schindel

Alexandra E. Schindel

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

564 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

569 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

473 Baldy Hall North 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

Luis Antonio Tosado II

Luis Antonio Tosado II

Clinical Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

407 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-1111

Email: luistosa@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Leadership; Race, Inequality, and Education; Urban Education; School Counseling

Noemi Waight

Noemi Waight

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

505 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

Amanda Winkelsas

Amanda Winkelsas

Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

505 Baldy Hall North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: awinkels@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; English Education; Diversity; Educator Preparation; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Urban Education