Faculty by Research Interest
This page displays SOE faculty categorized by research area or by their Emeritus status. Faculty profiles contain specific areas of expertise and contact information. If you are a prospective Ph.D. student, we encourage you to reach out directly to faculty whose research interests align with yours. Faculty are also available to respond to media inquiries, conference organizers, researchers and more. If you are a journalist, you can contact the faculty directly.
Uma M. Jayakumar
Associate Professor
- Racial Justice and Policy Issues in Higher Education
- Affirmative Action, CRT-bans
- College Admissions and Access
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Campus Racial Climate
Joseph Kahne
Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Personnel
Co-Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group (CREG)
- Education Policy and Politics
- Democratic and Civic Education
- Social Studies and Digital Media
- Educational Reform and Policy
- Civic and Political Development
Raquel M Rall
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives
- Higher Education Governance and Leadership
- Race, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Higher Education
- The Black Community in Education
- Parental and Community Involvement in Education
Robert Ream
Professor
- Inequality in K-12 and higher education settings
- Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class, linguistic inequality
Louie F Rodriguez
Professor and Vice Provost Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Urban schooling
- Student engagement and disengagement/Dropout crisis
Eddie Comeaux
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Education
Founding Director of the Center for Athletes' Rights and Equity (CARE)
Director of the Education Minor in Athletic Leadership
- Access and Equity
- Minority student engagement in campus life
- Rights and well-being of athletes across all levels of competition
Raquel M Rall
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives
- Higher Education Governance and Leadership
- Race, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Higher Education
- The Black Community in Education
- Parental and Community Involvement in Education
José Del Real Viramontes
Assistant Professor
jose.delrealviramontes@ucr.edu
- Latina/o Community College Students
- Latina/o Transfer Students — School of Education
- Cultural Studies
Robert Ream
Professor
- Inequality in K-12 and higher education settings
- Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class and linguistic inequality
Rican Vue
Assistant Professor
- Transformative resistance and critical reimagining in higher education
- Racial ideology in education policy and practice
- Intersections of race, ethnicity, class and gender in education
Joseph Kahne
Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Personnel
Co-Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group (CREG)
- Education Policy and Politics
- Democratic and Civic Education
- Social Studies and Digital Media
- Educational Reform and Policy
- Civic and Political Development
Rita Kohli
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC)
Coordinator, K-12 Ethnic Studies Pathway
- Critical Race Theory
- Racialization/racial justice in education
- Teaching/teacher ed
- Well-being of Teachers of Color
Suneal H Kolluri
Assistant Professor
- Educational Policy and Leadership
- Critical Pedagogy
- Social Stratification
Alice Y. Lee
Assistant Professor
- Teacher Selection and Recruitment
- Critical Literacy
- Raciolinguistics
- Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Amos Lee
Assistant Professor
- Critical Race Theory
- Issues of Equity
- Race and Space in School Desegregation
- Prison Education
Catherine (Cathy) Lussier
Associate Professor of Teaching
(UCR Distinguished Teaching Professor)
- STEM education
- Stress Effects on Memory and Cognition
- Math education
- NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (NASA MEI)
- Cognitive psychology
Anthony Muro Villa III
Assistant Professor
- STEM Teaching and Learning
- Mathematical learning opportunities
Soojin Park
Assistant Professor
- Developing and validatin quantitative methods for casual inference
- Racial and gendered disparities in educational and health outcomes
Joi A. Spencer
Professor and Dean of School of Education
- Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
- Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
- STEM Education
Begona Echeverria
Professor
- Sociology of language and education
- Gender, identity and language in Basque song
- Historical sociolinguistics
- Basque language schooling
Lorena Gutierrez
Assistant Professor
- Migration and education
- Educational experiences of seasonal farmworkers
- Latinx Education
Alice Y. Lee
Assistant Professor
- Teacher Selection and Recruitment
- Critical Literacy
- Raciolinguistics
- Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Lorena Gutierrez
Assistant Professor
- Migration and education
- Educational experiences of seasonal farmworkers
- Latinx Education
José Del Real Viramontes
Assistant Professor
jose.delrealviramontes@ucr.edu
- Latina/o Community College Students
- Latina/o Transfer Students — School of Education
- Cultural Studies
Tara J Yosso
Professor
- Chicana/o educational history
- Critical Race Theory and Critical Media Literacy
- Navigating racial discrimination in pursuit of education equality
Eui Kyung (Ellie) Kim
Assistant Professor
- School Mental Health
- Check, Connect & Respect Mentorship Program
- Universal Mental Health Screening
- Early Identification and Prevention
- Youth Resilience and Risk
- Social and Emotional Development from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Stephanie A Moore
Assistant Professor
- School Mental Health
- Social Emotional and Behavioral Screening
- Implementation Science in Educational Settings
- Youth Wellness Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention
Eddie Comeaux
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Education
Founding Director of the Center for Athletes' Rights and Equity (CARE)
Director of the Education Minor in Athletic Leadership
- Racial equity and justice issues in education
- college choice and admissions
- Intercollegiate athletics
Uma M. Jayakumar
Associate Professor
- Racial justice and policy issues in higher education, with a focus on how institutional environments such as campus climates and cultures shape college access and outcomes and how students' experience and resist barriers to inclusive engagement.
- Affirmative Action, CRT-bans
- College Admissions and Access
- Whiteness in Higher Education
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Campus Racial Climate
Rita Kohli
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Co-director, Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC)
Coordinator, K-12 Ethnic Studies Pathway
- Critical Race Theory
- Racism/racial justice in education
- Teaching/teacher ed
- Teachers of Color
Amos Lee
Assistant Professor of Teaching
- Critical Race Theory
- Inequality
- School of Choice
- Prison Education
- Teacher Education
Michael W Moses
Assistant Professor
- Critical Race Theory
- Postsecondary Racism
Raquel M Rall
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives
- Higher Education Governance and Leadership
- Race, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Higher Education
- The Black Community in Education
- Parental and Community Involvement in Education
Robert Ream
Professor
- Inequality in K-12 and higher education settings
- Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class, linguistic inequality
Joi A. Spencer
Professor and Dean of School of Education
- Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
- Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
- STEM Education
Rican Vue
Assistant Professor
- Transformative resistance and critical reimagining in higher education
- Racial ideology in education policy and practice
- Intersections of race, ethnicity, class and gender in education
Tara J Yosso
Professor
- Chicana/o educational history
- Critical Race Theory and Critical Media Literacy
- Navigating racial discrimination in pursuit of education equality
Austin Johnson
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Social, Emotional and Behavioral Screening Practices
- Behavior Support for Equitable Student Outcomes
- Research Ethics relative to Gender Identity
- Social justice, equity, and inclusion in schools
Eui Kyung (Ellie) Kim
Assistant Professor
- School Mental Health
- Multicultural School Psychology
- Early Identification and Prevention
- Youth Resilience and Risk
Stephanie A Moore
Assistant Professor
- School Mental Health
- Social Emotional and Behavioral Screening
- Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
- Implementation Science in Educational Settings
- Youth Wellness Promotion and Problem Prevention
Wesley Sims
Assistant Professor, Practicum Coordinator
- Improving educator service delivery practices within tiered delivery systems
- Implementation Science in Educational Settings
- Assessment of classroom management behavior
- School-Based Problem-Solving Teams
Jan Blacher
Distinguished Research Professor
UC Presidential Chair
- Studies of family impact
Cultural context of disability and Student-teacher relationships and adaptation to school
Eunsoo Cho
Associate Professor
- Statistical modeling of reading development
- Methods to measure students' response to intervention
- Efficacy of instructional models for students with reading difficulties
Katherine Meltzoff
Associate Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Electrophysiology (EEG)
- Reward systems and school-based interventions in ASD
- How anxiety contributes to social deficits in ASD
Michael R Solis
Associate Professor
- Vocabulary and reading comprehension interventions
- Reading practices for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Project READ-ASD (Grades 4-8)
Kinnari Atit
Assistant Professor
- Spatial Thinking
- STEM Teaching and Learning
- Leveraging spatial skills to improve mathematics achievement
Marsha M Ing
Associate Professor
- Measuring Mathematics and Science teaching and learning
- Understanding the mechanisms that influence STEM student outcomes
Catherine (Cathy) Lussier
Associate Professor of Teaching
(UCR Distinguished Teaching Professor)
- STEM education
- Stress Effects on Memory and Cognition
- Math education
- NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (NASA MEI)
- Cognitive psychology
Anthony Muro Villa III
Assistant Professor
- STEM Teaching and Learning
- Mathematical learning opportunities
Joi A. Spencer
Professor and Dean of School of Education
- Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
- Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
- STEM Education
Rita Kohli
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Co-director, Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC)
Coordinator, K-12 Ethnic Studies Pathway
- Critical Race Theory
- Racism/racial justice in education
- Teaching/teacher ed
- Teachers of Color
Gregory Palardy
Associate Professor
- Educational Equity
- Quantitative Methods
Joi A. Spencer
Professor and Dean of School of Education
- Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
- Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
- STEM Education
Jan Blacher
Distinguished Research Professor
UC Presidential Chair
- Studies of family impact
Cultural context of disability and Student-teacher relationships and adaptation to school
Steven Bossert
Professor, Emeritus
- Sociology of Education
- Organizational leadership and change
- School and classroom organization effects
James T Dillon
Professor Emeritus
- Conceptions of teaching, questioning and discussion processes
- Philosophy of education
Cassandra Guarino
Professor of Education, Emeritus
- Educational equity
- Teacher quality
- Teacher labor markets
- School choice
- Links between health and education
E M Hanson
Professor Emeritus
- Governance and decision making in educational institutions
- Comparative international education, emphasis on Latin America Knowledge transfer and multi-national corporations in Mexico
Asha K. Jitendra
Professor of Education, Emeritus
- Mathematics and reading interventions
- Learning Disabilities
- Textbook Analysis
Richard S Newman
Professor, Emeritus
- Academic and social help seeking — School of Education
Reba N Page
Professor, Emeritus
- How schools are social institutions and in part construct the society we live in by affecting children in various ways
H L Swanson
Distinguished Professor of Graduate Division
Athena Waite
Emeritus
Keith Widaman
Distinguished Professor of Graduate Division
- Measurement of adaptive behaviors of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Family influences on development in Mexican-origin families
- Modeling gene X environment (GxE) interactions
- Optimal ways of testing theoretical conjectures with linear models
John S Wills
Associate Professor, Emeritus
- History-social studies education
- Multicultural education
- Schooling and collective memory