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Alma Flor Ada, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Sociopolitical issues in education; education for personal liberation and social change; children's literature and critical thinking.

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Lanna Andrews, Ed.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Special education; work in urban education settings with culturally and linguistically diverse learners; collaborative consultation; case method.

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Joan Avis, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Counseling psychology; adult development, life transitions counseling; life planning and consultation; personality; psychology of women.

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Noah Borrero, Ph.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban education; language minority students; issues of diversity and social justice in teaching; adolescent development; bilingualism; teacher education; and immigration.

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Yvonne N. Bui, Ph.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Special education; reading and writing interventions for K-12 students; cultural diversity.

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Robert Burns, Ph.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Research on teaching and instruction, particularly the effects of class composition on student learning; research methodology; statistics.

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Patricia L. Busk, Ph.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Education statistics and research methods: meta-analysis, nonparametrics methods applied to analysis of single-case data, randomization tests, test construction, and performance assessment; assessment in higher education; teaching statistics; and teaching in higher education.

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Cori Bussolari, Psy.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Pediatric health psychology; bereavement; the relationship between chronic/terminal illness and family coping; the human-animal bond; complexity science as a framework for counseling.

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Denis E. Collins, S.J., Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Social and philosophcal foundations of education; the educational philosophy; Paulo Freire; educational issues of the third-world or oppressed populations; international education.

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Geoffrey R. Dillon, S.J., Ed.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Educational leadership; private school administration; school psychology and counseling; teacher and administrator supervision & development; teacher preparation, research methods; MBTI & Leadership styles; moral development; philosophical foundations of education.

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Susan Evans, Ed.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Special education; survey research; teacher training; grant writing; female adult development.

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Elena Flores, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Latino adolescent sexuality; family functioning and adolescent health risk behaviors; Latino mental health; multicultural psychology and counseling.

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Emma Fuentes, Ph.D.
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Bilingual education; immigrants and schooling; Latino school experience; community organizing for school change; school and community partnerships; school reform; parental involvement; social and cultural theory; participatory action research.

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Rosita Galang, Ph.D.
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Theories, research and issues in language development and language use; sociolinguistic issues in bilingualism and bilingual education; first and second language acquisition and teaching; language maintenance and language shift; linguistics; Filipino American education.

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Brian Gerrard, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Marital and family therapy; school-based family counseling; cognitive-behavioral therapy; research methods; psychological type; grief counseling; health psychology.

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Judy Goodell, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychlogy

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Adult development; life transitions and how people adapt to change; aging and eldership; the relationship between positive psychology and counseling/therapy; spiritual development across the life span; the application of indigenous wisdoms and cross-cultural methods to modern mental health and personal growth.

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Ellen A. Herda, Ph.D.
Department of Leadership Studies, Organization & Leadership Program

Research interests and areas of expertise:
International development in corporate, government and non-government, and education and health settings; communication and organizational change; preparation for higher education research and teaching; socioeconomic policy analysis; anthropological research within the critical hermeneutic tradition.

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Kathleen Jonson, Ed.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Reading, language arts and literacy; issues in beginning teacher development; mentoring the new teacher; curriculum and instruction.

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Susan Roberta Katz, Ph.D.
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Global issues in multicultural education, especially as related to language and literacy; education of Romani students in Central/Eastern Europe; immigration to the U.S. and its impact upon education, particularly for youth from Latin America; examination of youth violence and its link to schooling.

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Shabnam Koirala-Azad, Ph.D.
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Globalization and transnationalism; immigration and education; global citizenship; social and cultural theory; international comparative education; gender, education and social change; qualitative approaches to research.

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Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
First and second language acquisition; teaching English as a second language; syntax; discourse analysis; linguistics.

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Mathew Mitchell, Ph.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Multimedia learning; student motivation; creativity; mathematics education.

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Patricia Mitchell, Ph.D.
Department of Leadership Studies, Organization & Leadership Program

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Organizational development; leadership styles; management issues; women's issues; K-12 administration; K-12 teaching; language development; literacy.

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Kevin Oh, Ph.D.
Department of Learning & Instruction

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Special education; English language learners; multicultural education; eye movement research.

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Judith Pace, Ed.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Socio-cultural dynamics in educational settings; classroom curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment; authority relationships; teaching for understanding; bridging theory and practice in teacher education; qualitative research; and citizenship education.

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Terence Patterson, Ed.D., ABPP
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Family psychology, ethical issues, and theoretical orientation in psychotherapy.

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Pamela Redmond, Ed.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Director of the Teaching and Learning Interchange and StarTEC projects; systemic reform, distance learning pedagogy and distributed education; communities of practice, problem-based learning; new teacher development and mentoring; special education, reading instruction and educational technology.

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Gini Shimabukuro, Ed.D.
Department of Leadership Studies, Catholic Educational Leadership Program

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Research and practice in Catholic education; theories, research and issues in curriculum and instruction; philosophical foundations of education; spirituality of the educator; content analysis research methodology.

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Betty Taylor, Ph.D.
Department of International & Multicultural Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Higher education administration and management; global higher education and leadership; women in leadership; education in cities and diversity; K-12 schooling; curriculum and instruction; strategic planning and assessment of learning; on-line learning and instruction; servant leadership.

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Christopher Thomas, Ph.D.
Department of Organization & Leadership

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Urban education; K-12 administration; instructional leadership; special education; family and community involvement.

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Br. Ray Vercruysse, C.F.C., Ed.D.
Department of Leadership Studies, Catholic Educational Leadership Program

Research interests and areas of expertise:
President/principal model of Catholic school governance; Catholic identity within our Catholic school; sponsorship of Catholic schools; charism and culture identity of Catholic schools; the spiritual leadership of administrators in Catholic schools.

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Claudia Ramirez Wiedeman, Ph.D.
Department of Teacher Education

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Bilingual education theory and pedagogy; crosscultural perspectives on language, literacy, and learning; students of color in urban schools; the professional development/mentoring of teachers of color.

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Christine Yeh, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Immigrant youth cultural adjustment and negotiations; indigenous healing methods and perspectives; cultural conceptualizations of self, collectivistic coping, and mental health; multicultural school counseling.

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Steven Zlutnick, Ph.D.
Department of Counseling Psychology

Research interests and areas of expertise:
Behavioral therapy and behavioral health/medicine; single subject experimental research; accountable mental health systems; iatrogenic issues in education, psychology and medicine.

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