Experts by Field: Education

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8/16/21
Sam Abramovich
Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction, and Information Science
Expertise: learning sciences, emerging technologies in education, alternative assessments, educational games, digital badges
Phone: 716-645-3174
Email: samuelab@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
Annahita Ball

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Expertise: family engagement in schools; educational justice and reform; school-based mental health services; school-community partnerships

Phone: 716-645-8951
Email: annahita@buffalo.edu
8/10/22
Claire E. Cameron

Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: early childhood education, childhood development, educational psychology, classroom management

Phone: 716-645-4075
Email: cecamero@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Catherine Cook-Cottone
Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Expertise: yoga, mindfulness, embodied self-regulation, eating disorders, anxiety-based disorders

Phone: 716-645-1128
Email: cpcook@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Nathan J. Daun-Barnett
Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration
Expertise: college access, financial aid policy, college transition

Phone: 716-645-1096
Email: nbarnett@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Stephanie Fredrick

Associate Director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention
Expertise: bullying, cyberbullying, youth mental health, bullying interventions
Phone: 716-645-1141
Email: ssfredri@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Julie Gorlewski

Chair of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: access and equity in education; literacy; teacher preparation
Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: jgorlews@buffalo.edu
5/7/21
Kamontá Heidelburg

Assistant Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

Expertise: educational access and equity; race, inequality and education; school reform; culturally responsive supports; child and adolescent development
Phone: 716-645-2484
Email: kamontah@buffalo.edu
4/15/20
Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: access, equity and diversity in education; cultural studies; international education; science and environmental education

Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: sameerho@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Mara Huber

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning

Expertise: experiential learning, study abroad, virtual study abroad, university-community partnerships
Phone: 716-829-2834
Email: mbhuber@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Heidi Julien
Professor of Information Science
Expertise: digital literacy, information literacy, information behavior, information practice
Phone: 716-645-1474
Email: heidijul@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Tiffany Karalis Noel

Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: sociocultural inequity in education, teacher preparation and retention, mentoring in higher education

Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: tbkarali@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Erin Kearney
Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: language teaching and learning, intercultural competence and language education, language teacher training and development
Phone: 716-645-4058
Email: ekearney@buffalo.edu
7/27/22
LaGarrett J. King

Director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education

Expertise: Black history education, social studies, history of education, teacher education, racism and anti-Blackness
Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: lagarret@buffalo.edu
2/20/18
Jaekyung Lee

Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

Expertise: educational policy, student testing, school accountability, international and comparative education, achievement gaps, educational inequalities

Phone: 716-645-1132
Email: jl224@buffalo.edu
12/18/20
Melinda Lemke

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
Expertise: K-12 educational policy and reform; politics of education; public health; sociocultural contexts of education
Phone: 716-645-1090
Email: malemke@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Xiufeng Liu

Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: STEM education, including student achievement, assessment and evaluation, and STEM teaching in colleges and universities; science and the public
Phone: 716-645-4050
Email: xliu5@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Mary McVee
Director of the Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction

Expertise: literacy instruction; diversity and literacy; technology and literacy; narrative

Phone: 716-645-2458
Email: mcvee@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies; Haudenosaunee history; public history; settler colonialism, including colonial residential/boarding schools; land tenure; Indigenous inclusion in education; emotional labor
Phone: 716-645-0833
Email: alyssamt@buffalo.edu
11/8/21
Amanda Nickerson
Director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention
Expertise: school violence, bullying prevention and intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders
Phone: 716-645-1532
Email: alberticenter@buffalo.edu
6/27/22
Joanna Pepin

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Expertise: family sociology, inequality, gender and work, childcare, paid family leave
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: jpepin@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Raechele L. Pope

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer in the Graduate School of Education

Expertise: multicultural education; equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education; campus climate; campus unrest; race, racism and race relations
Phone: 716-645-1098
Email: rlpope@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Thomas Ramming
Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: K-12 school and district leadership, educational policy, organizational development, human resources, labor relations, collective bargaining, leadership recruitment and development, shared services, inter-district collaboration
Phone: 716-645-1099
Email: trammin@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Amy Reynolds

Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

Expertise: multicultural issues, college student mental health

Phone: 716-645-1112
Email: alr24@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
Ryan M. Rish
Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction
Expertise: adolescent literacy practices; culture and identity in learning; teaching social issues
Phone: 716-645-4042
Email: ryanrish@buffalo.edu
4/1/22
Sarah A. Robert

Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: teaching as an occupation; teachers’ unions; labor issues in education; global education reform; gender and equity in education; school food
Phone: 716-645-4046
Email: sarah@buffalo.edu
1/24/22
Margaret Sallee

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: university work environment, work/family policies, work/life balance, faculty diversity, gender on college campuses, graduate student experience

Phone: 716-645-1091
Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu
12/2/21
Matilde Sanchez-Pena

Assistant Professor of Engineering Education

Expertise: engineering education, cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity in the engineering field, women in STEM, intersectionality
Phone: 716-645-5861
Email: matildes@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Joann Sands

Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: disaster response education and training; emergency preparedness and management; the role of nurses in disasters
Phone: 716-829-2342
Email: jsnyder2@buffalo.edu
6/14/22
Stephen Santa-Ramirez

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: access and equity in higher education; race, ethnicity, im/migration and Latinx collegians' educational experiences; undocumented and DACA students in higher education
Phone: 716-645-5236
Email: srsantar@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lynn Shanahan
Associate Professor of of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: childhood literacy; literacy, technology and multimodality; STEM and urban education
Phone: 716-645-4028
Email: ls34@buffalo.edu
10/4/18
Ji-Won Son

Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: mathematics education, gender equity in STEM
Phone: 716-645-4030
Email: jiwonson@buffalo.edu
3/1/18
Corrie Stone-Johnson

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: school leadership, school reform, schools and communities, organizational culture of schools

Phone: 716-645-2471
Email: corriest@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Letitia Thomas

Assistant Dean for Diversity in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Expertise: STEM education and pipelines; women and students of color in STEM; sociology of education; social justice; social networks; microaggressions
Phone: 716-645-3071
Email: lthomas@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
X. Christine Wang
Director of the Fisher-Price Early Childhood Research Center

Expertise: early childhood development and learning, technology in early childhood, early literacy and science, early education in international contexts

Phone: 716-645-2379
Email: wangxc@buffalo.edu
4/1/20
Larry White

Assistant Professor of Information Science

Expertise: library management, leadership, policy, organizational performance
Phone: 716-645-1473
Email: lnwhite@buffalo.edu