Graduate Faculty

Christine B. McCormick, Professor and Dean of the College of Education, B.A., Purdue, 1977; M.S., Wisconsin at Madison, 1979; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1981.

Joseph B. Berger, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, B.A., Lawrence University, 1986; M.A., Bowling Green, 1990; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1997.

Linda L. Griffin, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, B.S., Black Hills State, 1976; M.S., Ithaca, 1986; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1991.

Marjorie Magouirk Colbert, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean for Educator Licensure, B.S.E., Kansas, 1973; M.S.E., 1981; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 1994.

Theresa Y. Austin, Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1976; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1991.

Ysaaca Axelrod, Assistant Professor, B.A., Haverford College, 1999; M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 2003; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, 2012.

Benita Barnes, Associate Professor, B.A., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., 1999; M.A., 2003; Ph.D., 2005.

Mary Lynn Boscardin, Professor and Chair of Student Development Department, B.S., Illinois, 1975; M.S., Wisconsin, 1976; Ph.D., Illinois, 1984.

Maria José Botelho, Assistant Professor, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984; M.Ed., 1996; Ed.D., 2004.

J. Camille Cammack, Lecturer, B.S., Brigham Young, 1978; Ph.D., Oregon State, 1998.

John C. Carey, Professor, B.A., King’s College, 1974; M.S., Wisconsin, 1977; Ph.D., 1979; Ph.D., Wyoming, 1984.

Kathleen S. Davis, Associate Professor, B.S., Eastern Illinois, 1971; M.S., National-Louis University, 1991; Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder, 1996.

Catherine L. Dimmitt, Associate Professor, B.A., Wesleyan, 1985; M.Ed., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990; Ph.D., 1995.

Darrell Earnest, Assistant Professor, B.A., Washington, 1998; M.A., Tufts, 2002; M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 2007; Ph.D., 2012.

Jeffrey W. Eiseman, Associate Professor, B.A., Stanford, 1962; M.A., Michigan, 1964; Ph.D., 1971.

Portia C. Elliott, Professor, B.A., Fisk, 1969; M.A., Michigan, 1970; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1974.

David R. Evans, Professor, B.A., Oberlin, 1959; M.Sc., Illinois, 1961; Ph.D., Stanford, 1969.

Sarah Fefer, Assistant Professor, B.A., Vermont, 2008; M.A., University of South Florida, 2009.

John M. Francisco, Assistant Professor, B.A., Pedagogical University, Mozambique, 1992; M.Ed., Rutgers, 1999; Ph.D., 2004.

Sally Galman, Associate Professor, B.A., Grinnell, 1996; M.A., Colorado at Boulder, 1998; Ph.D., 2005.

Margaret Gebhard, Associate Professor, B.A., SUNY at Binghamton, 1986; M.A., Syracuse, 1989; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1999.

Chrystal George Mwangi, Assistant Professor, B.A., Rollins College, 2004; M.S., Florida State University, 2008; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2014.

Keisha Green, Assistant Professor, B.A., Columbia College, 1999; M.A., New York University, 2001; Ph.D., Emory University, 2011.

Catherine Griffith, Assistant Professor, B.A., Chapman University, 2004; M.S., 2011; Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2014.

Ronald K. Hambleton, Distinguished University Professor, B.A., University of Waterloo, 1966; M.A., Toronto, 1967; Ph.D., 1969.

Claire E. Hamilton, Associate Professor and Chair of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies Department, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1981; M.Ed., 1986; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 1994.

John M. Hintze, Professor, B.A., New York at Cortland, 1982; M.A., Alfred, 1984; Ph.D., Lehigh, 1994.

Kate Hudson, Lecturer, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987; M.Ed., Maine at Orono, 1994; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010.

Jason Irizarry, Associate Professor and Director of Urban Education, B.A., Siena College, 1996; M.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1998; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005.

Denise K. Ives, Assistant Professor, B.S., Brigham Young, 1994; M.A., Saginaw Valley State, 2002; Ph.D., Michigan State, 2008.

Korina Jocson, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1994; M.A., San Francisco State University, 1996; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2004.

Sangeeta G. Kamat, Associate Professor, B.A., Sophia College, India, 1985; M.A., The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, 1988; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1998.

Alfred L. Karlson, Associate Professor, B.A., Antioch, 1964; M.Ed., Tufts, 1966; Ph.D., Chicago, 1972.

Lisa A. Keller, Associate Professor, B.S., Saint Michael’s College, 1993; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002; Ed.D., 2002.

Ezekiel Kimball, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Southern Maine, 2005; M.S., 2008; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2012.

Michael P. Krezmien, Assistant Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1995; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2001; Ph.D., Maryland, 2007.

John Kudukey, Lecturer, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1973; M.Ed., American International College, 1983; C.A.G.S., Massachusetts at Amherst; Ed.D., 1997.

Richard T. Lapan, Professor, B.A., St. Anselm, 1972; M.A., Duquesne, 1974; Ph.D., Utah, 1987.

Alexandra Lauterbach, Assistant Professor, B.A., North Carolina, 2003; M.S., Pennsylvania, 2004.

Sandra R. Madden, Assistant Professor, B.S., Western Michigan, 1987; M.A., 1993; M.S., 2003; Ph.D., 2008.

Robert W. Maloy, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1969; M.A.T., 1971; Ed.D., Boston University, 1976.

Amanda M. Marcotte, Assistant Professor, B.A., Providence College, 1996; M.Ed., Massachusetts, 2003; Ph.D., 2006. 

Antonio Martinez, Assistant Professor, B.A., San Francisco State University, 2009; Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 2014.

Kathryn A. McDermott, Associate Professor, B.A., Lehigh, 1990; M.A., Yale, 1991; M.Phil., 1993; Ph.D., 1997.

Elizabeth McEneaney, Assistant Professor, B.A., Carleton College, 1983; M.A., Stanford, 1998; Ph.D., 1998.

Jacqueline Mosselson, Associate Professor, B.A., Tufts, 1994; M.I.A., Columbia, 1997; M.Ed./M.Ph., 2000; Ph.D., 2002.

Martina Nieswandt, Associate Professor, M.A., Ruhr University of Bochum, 1987; Ph.D., University of Kiel, 1996.

Bjorn Nordtveit, Associate Professor, B.A., Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1991; B.A., Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 1993; M.Ph., École Pratiques des Hautes Études, 1993; Ph.D., Maryland, 2005.

Kysa Nygreen, Assistant Professor, B.A., Barnard, 1997; M.A., California at Berkeley, 2002; Ph.D., 2005.

Howard A. Peelle, Professor, B.S., Swarthmore, 1965; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1971.

Marie-Christine PolizziLecturer, B.A., University de Toulouse: Le Mirail, 1997; M.A., 1998; Ph.D. Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013.

Sharon F. Rallis, Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 1968; Ed.M., Harvard, 1977; Ed.D., 1982.

Jennifer RandallAssociate Professor, B.A., Duke, 1996; M.A.T., 1999; Ph.D., Emory, 2007.

Gretchen B. Rossman, Professor and Chair of Educational Policy, Research and Administration Department, B.A., Pennsylvania, 1966; M.S., 1968; Ph.D., 1983.

Stephen G. Sireci, Professor, B.A., Loyola College, 1985; M.A., 1987; Ph.D., Fordham, 1993.

Cristine A. Crispin Smith, Associate Professor, B.A., California State at Chico, 1978; B.A., California at Santa Cruz, 1983; M.S., Cornell, 1985; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1997.

Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Development, B.A., Westfield State, 1971; M.A., Mount Holyoke College, 1972; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978.

Florence Sullivan, Associate Professor, B.A., New College of California, 1995; M.A., San Francisco State, 1999; Ed.M., Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001; Ph.D., 2005.

Torrey Trust, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California at San Diego, 2007; M.A., San Diego State University, 2012; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2014.

K. C. Nat Turner, Assistant Professor, B.A., Brown, 1999; Ed.M., Harvard, 2001; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2008.

Laura A. Valdiviezo, Assistant Professor, B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1993; M.A., Clark, 1996; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia, 2006.

Ruth-Ellen Verock-O’Loughlin, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994; M.Ed., 2001; Ed.D., 2006.

Ernest D. Washington, Professor, B.A., Southern Illinois, 1958; B.A., Minnesota, 1960; M.A., Illinois, 1965; Ph.D., 1968.

Craig S. Wells, Associate Professor, B.S., Castleton State College, 1993; M.S., Wisconsin at Madison, 2000; Ph.D., 2004.

Ryan S. Wells, Assistant Professor, B.S., Iowa State, 1995; M.A., Iowa, 2004; Ph.D., 2008.

Sara WhitcombAssistant Professor, B.A., Boston College, 1996; Ed.M., Harvard, 1998; Ph.D., Oregon, 2009.

Rebecca Woodland, Associate Professor, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991; M.A., Northern California, 1997; Ph.D., Colorado State, 2001.

Seon Yeong Yu, Assistant Professor, B.A., Sookmyung Women's University, 1997; M.A., Ewha Women's University, 2000; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.

Ximena U. Zúñiga, Associate Professor, M.E., Universidad Católica de Chile, 1979; M.A., Michigan, 1982; Ph.D., 1992.


Faculty Emeriti

Maurianne Adams, Professor Emerita (2008).

Liane Brandon, Professor Emerita (2005).

R. Mason Bunker, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Emma Cappelluzzo, Professor Emerita (1991).

Donald K. Carew, Professor Emeritus (1994).

John J. Clement, Professor Emeritus (2011).

Roberta Collard, Professor Emerita (1986).

Grace Craig, Professor Emerita (2004).

Patricia H. Crosson, Professor Emerita (2001).

Patt S. Dodds,   Professor Emerita (2004).

Andrew Effrat, Professor Emeritus (2011).

Kenneth Ertel, Professor Emeritus (1991).

Allan Feldman, Professor Emeritus (2009).

Louis Fischer, Professor Emeritus (1990).

George E. Forman, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Ronald H. Fredrickson, Professor Emeritus (1992).

Luis Fuentes, Professor Emeritus (1992).

Atron A. Gentry, Professor Emeritus (1999).

Patricia S. Griffin, Professor Emerita (2004).

Jack Hruska, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Thomas E. Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus (1992).

Allen E. Ivey, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Bailey W. Jackson, Professor Emeritus (2011).

Richard D. Konicek, Professor Emeritus (1995).

William J. Masalski, Professor Emeritus (2002).

William J. Matthews, Professor Emeritus (2011).

Robert J. Miltz, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita (2006).

J. Kevin Nugent, Professor Emeritus (2012).

Kenneth A. Parker, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Judith Placek, Professor Emerita (2007).

Janine Roberts, Professor Emerita (2006).

Masha K. Rudman, Professor Emerita (2009).

Stanley E. Scarpati, Professor Emeritus (2010).

David M. Schimmel, Professor Emeritus (2008).

David F. Schuman, Professor Emeritus (2006).

Irving Seidman, Professor Emeritus (2006).

Clement A. Seldin, Professor Emeritus, (2011).

Doris J. Shallcross, Professor Emerita (1995).

Sidney B. Simon, Professor Emeritus (1989).

Robert L. Sinclair, Professor Emeritus (2006).

Judith W. Solsken, Professor Emerita (2002).

Patrick J. Sullivan, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Hariharan Swaminathan, Professor Emeritus (2002).

William L. Theummel, Professor Emeritus (2001).

George E. Urch, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Kenneth R. Washington, Professor Emeritus (1995).

Gerald Weinstein, Professor Emeritus (1995).

Robert E. Wellman, Professor Emeritus (1993).

Jerri Willett, Professor Emerita (2013).

William C. Wolf, Jr., Professor Emeritus (1992).

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