Faculty
Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Urban Education include faculty appointed solely to The Graduate Center, as well as affiliated faculty who teach at The Graduate Center as well as another CUNY school. Our faculty are distinguished scholars, who are active in their communities and dedicated to their students and their research.
GC-Based Faculty
| Paul Attewell |
| Educational Inequality, High School, Information Technology in Education |
| Stephen Brier |
| U.S. Social and Education History; Digital Technology |
| Colette Daiute |
| Education in Adversity; Language, Narrative, and Digital Media; Mixed Research Methods |
| Wendy Luttrell |
| gender, race and class politics in schooling; critical childhood studies; visual sociology |
| Martin Dale Ruck |
| Cognitive Socialization, Intergroup Exclusion, Youth Civic Engagement, Human Rights |
| Carla Shedd |
| Race and ethnicity, social inequality, urban education, criminology and criminal justice, urban policy, qualitative, mixed methods |
| Anna Stetsenko |
| Intersection of development, education and social theory including topics of agency and identity. Activist scholarship to combat inequality in education and beyond. Pedagogy and culture. Sociocultural approaches to teaching and learning. |
Consortial Faculty
| Konstantinos Alexakos |
| Critical sociocultural research with a focus on emotions and mindfulness in teaching and learning. |
| Gillian Bayne |
| Science Education, Cogenerative Dialogue, Adolescent Education |
| Regina Bernard |
| Race, Class, Urban Education, Food Access and Engaged Activism |
| David Bloomfield |
| School Leadership; District Governance; Federal, State and Local Education Law and Policy |
| David Brotherton |
| Sociology, Juvenile Deliquency, Social Control, Youth Subcultures |
| Limarys Caraballo |
| Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), English Education, Literacy |
| Barry Cherkas |
| Mathematics Education, Partial Differential Equations, Technology |
| Jennifer Collett |
| Emergent Bilinguals, Multilingual Education, Identity Development and Equity-based pedagogy. |
| Sherry Deckman |
| Educational Equity and Justice; Social Inequality; Diversity |
| Cecilia Espinosa |
| Emergent Bilinguals, Translanguaging, children’s literature, writing with bi/multilingual children, descriptive inquiry, collaborative research, and teacher learning communities. |
| Gene Fellner |
| Secondary schooling, engaged pedagogy, special education, arts-based research |
| Beth Ferholt |
| The relationship between emotion and cognition in play, Learning and Development; Early Childhood Education |
| Namulundah Florence |
| Historical foundations of American Schooling, Multicultural Education, Marginalization in Formal and Informal Education |
| Madeline Fox |
| Participatory Action Research, Youth Studies, Structural Violence, Building Community Power |
| David Gerwin |
| History/Social Studies Education, Labor/Social Movements (especially 1960s) |
| Kenneth Gold |
| Staten Island's relationship to New York City (1898-1964) |
| Amita Gupta |
| Early Childhood Education, International Education with an Emphasis on South Asia |
| Immaculee Harushimana |
| Language and Culture, African-born and Middle Eastern Youth in the U.S.A., Immigrant and Minority Literacy Education |
| Judith Kafka |
| History of Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education |
| Tatyana Kleyn |
| Bilingualism in education, teaching immigration, race and culture in Garifuna communities |
| Marcia Knoll |
| Curriculum and Teaching, Instructional Supervision, Educational Leadership |
| Carmen Kynard |
| Composition-Rhetoric Studies, New Literacies Studies, and Urban Education |
| Kate Menken |
| Language Education Policy, Bilingual Education, Emergent Bilinguals in Secondary Schools |
| Anthony Picciano |
| Education Policy, Leadership, Higher Education, Online Education, Technology |
| Rosa Rivera-McCutchen |
| Critical Care, Urban School Leadership, Community and School Contexts on Reform Efforts |
| Bethany L. Rogers |
| History of Education, Teachers and Teacher Education, Education Policy |
| Susan Semel |
| History of Education and Progressive education |
| Ira Shor |
| Critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, working class culture |
| Kersha Smith |
| Transformative Education, Critical Reflection, Critical Pedagogy, African American Studies, and Cultural Psychology |
| Debbie Sonu |
| Curriculum Theory, Youth and Childhood Studies, Social Justice Teaching and Learning |
| Celina Su |
| Participatory Governance, Civil Society, Civic Engagement, Health Policy |
| Liqing Tao |
| Literacy, Educational Technology, Chinese theories & practices in Reading Ed. |
| Dante Tawfeeq |
| Latino and African American males in higher education; urban math teacher preparation and teaching of math to college students; validity of assessments; STEM in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Jan Valle |
| Learning Disabilities, Special Education/Transition Issues, Curriculum &Teaching |
| Terri Watson |
| School Leadership for Social Justice, Urban School Leadership, Motherwork, Black Girlhood |
| Claire Wladis |
| Mathematics Education, Higher Education, Online Learning |
| Yael Wyner |
| Curriculum, Enrionmnetal Issues and Everyday Life, Secondary Science Classrooms |
Emeritus Faculty
| David Connor |
| Learning Disbilities, Inclusive Education, Teacher Education |
| David Forbes |
| Critical/Integral Approaches to Contemplative Urban Education, School Counseling, Human Development |
| Ofelia García |
| Language, Literacy, Culture and Bilingualism in Education |
| Nicholas Michelli |
| Educational Policy Studies and Analysis, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Policy |
| Kenneth Tobin |
| Mindfulness, Contemplative Inquiry, Wellness, Science Education, Emotion, Cultural Sociology and Logics of Inquiry |