SOE Faculty Members at Commencement

Faculty Research Interests


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

Uma M. Jayakumar

  uma.jayakumar@ucr.edu

  • 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

Joseph Kahne

  joseph.kahne@ucr.edu

  • Education Policy and Politics
  • Democratic and Civic Education
  • Social Studies and Digital Media
  • Educational Reform and Policy
  • Civic and Political Development

Raquel Rall

Raquel M Rall

  raquel.rall@ucr.edu

  • 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

Robert Ream

  robert.ream@ucr.edu

  • Inequality in K-­12 and higher education settings
  • Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class, linguistic inequality

Louie Rodriguez

Louie F Rodriguez

  louie.rodriguez@ucr.edu

  • Urban schooling
  • Student engagement and disengagement/Dropout crisis

 

Eddie Comeaux

Eddie Comeaux

  eddie.comeaux@ucr.edu

  • Access and Equity
  • Minority student engagement in campus life
  • Rights and well-being of athletes across all levels of competition

Raquel Rall

Raquel M Rall

  raquel.rall@ucr.edu

  • Higher Education Governance and Leadership
  • Race, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in Higher Education
  • The Black Community in Education
  • Parental and Community Involvement in Education

Jose Del Real Viramontes

José Del Real Viramontes

  jose.delrealviramontes@ucr.edu

  • Latina/o Community College Students
  • Latina/o Transfer Students — School of Education
  • Cultural Studies

Robert Ream

Robert Ream

  robert.ream@ucr.edu

  • Inequality in K-­12 and higher education settings
  • Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class and linguistic inequality

Rican Vue

Rican Vue

  rican.vue@ucr.edu

  • 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

Joseph Kahne

  joseph.kahne@ucr.edu

  • Education Policy and Politics
  • Democratic and Civic Education
  • Social Studies and Digital Media
  • Educational Reform and Policy
  • Civic and Political Development

Rita Kohli

Rita Kohli

  rita.kohli@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Racialization/racial justice in education
  • Teaching/teacher ed
  • Well-being of Teachers of Color

Sunneal Kolluri

Suneal H Kolluri

  suneal.kolluri@ucr.edu

  • Educational Policy and Leadership
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Social Stratification

Alice Lee

Alice Y. Lee

  alice.lee@ucr.edu

  • Teacher Selection and Recruitment
  • Critical Literacy
  • Raciolinguistics
  • Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Amos Lee

Amos Lee

  amos.lee@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Issues of Equity
  • Race and Space in School Desegregation
  • Prison Education

Catherine Lussier

Catherine (Cathy) Lussier

  cathy.lussier@ucr.edu

  • 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

Anthony Muro Villa III

  anthony.villa@ucr.edu

  • STEM Teaching and Learning
  • Mathematical learning opportunities
     

Soojin Park

Soojin Park

  soojin.park@ucr.edu

  • Developing and validatin quantitative methods for casual inference
  • Racial and gendered disparities in educational and health outcomes

Joi Spencer

Joi A. Spencer

  joi.spencer@ucr.edu

  • Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
  • Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
  • STEM Education

 

Begona Echeverria

Begona Echeverria

  b.echeverria@ucr.edu

  • Sociology of language and education
  • Gender, identity and language in Basque song
  • Historical sociolinguistics
  • Basque language schooling

Dr. Lorena Gutierrez

Lorena Gutierrez

  lorena.gutierrez@ucr.edu

  • Migration and education
  • Educational experiences of seasonal farmworkers
  • Latinx Education

Alice Lee

Alice Y. Lee

  alice.lee@ucr.edu

  • Teacher Selection and Recruitment
  • Critical Literacy
  • Raciolinguistics
  • Anti-Racist Pedagogy

 

Dr. Lorena Gutierrez

Lorena Gutierrez

  lorena.gutierrez@ucr.edu

  • Migration and education
  • Educational experiences of seasonal farmworkers
  • Latinx Education

Jose Del Real Viramontes

José Del Real Viramontes

  jose.delrealviramontes@ucr.edu

  • Latina/o Community College Students
  • Latina/o Transfer Students — School of Education
  • Cultural Studies

Tara Yosso

Tara J Yosso

  t.yosso@ucr.edu

  • Chicana/o educational history
  • Critical Race Theory and Critical Media Literacy
  • Navigating racial discrimination in pursuit of education equality  

 

Eui Kyung Kim

Eui Kyung (Ellie) Kim

  euikyung.kim@ucr.edu

  • 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 Moore

Stephanie A Moore

  stephanie.moore@ucr.edu

  • School Mental Health
  • Social Emotional and Behavioral Screening
  • Implementation Science in Educational Settings
  • Youth Wellness Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention
     

 

Eddie Comeaux

Eddie Comeaux

  eddie.comeaux@ucr.edu

  • Racial equity and justice issues in education
  • college choice and admissions
  • Intercollegiate athletics

Uma M. Jayakumar

Uma M. Jayakumar

  uma.jayakumar@ucr.edu

  • 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

Rita Kohli

  rita.kohli@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Racism/racial justice in education
  • Teaching/teacher ed
  • Teachers of Color

Amos Lee

Amos Lee

  amos.lee@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Inequality
  • School of Choice
  • Prison Education
  • Teacher Education    

Michael Moses

Michael W Moses

  michael.moses@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Postsecondary Racism    

Raquel Rall

Raquel M Rall

  raquel.rall@ucr.edu

  • 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

Robert Ream

  robert.ream@ucr.edu

  • Inequality in K-­12 and higher education settings
  • Social capital and the social dynamics of racial, social class, linguistic inequality

Joi Spencer

Joi A. Spencer

  joi.spencer@ucr.edu

  • Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
  • Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
  • STEM Education

Rican Vue

Rican Vue

  rican.vue@ucr.edu

  • 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 Yosso

Tara J Yosso

  t.yosso@ucr.edu

  • Chicana/o educational history
  • Critical Race Theory and Critical Media Literacy
  • Navigating racial discrimination in pursuit of education equality  

 

Austin Johnson

Austin Johnson

  austin.johnson@ucr.edu

  • 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 Kim

Eui Kyung (Ellie) Kim

  euikyung.kim@ucr.edu

  • School Mental Health
  • Multicultural School Psychology
  • Early Identification and Prevention
  • Youth Resilience and Risk

Stephanie Moore

Stephanie A Moore

  stephanie.moore@ucr.edu

  • 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

Wesley Sims

  wesley.sims@ucr.edu

  • 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

Jan Blacher

  jan.blacher@ucr.edu

  • Studies of family impact

Cultural context of disability and Student-teacher relationships and adaptation to school


Eunsoo Cho

  eunsooc@ucr.edu

  • Statistical modeling of reading development
  • Methods to measure students' response to intervention
  • Efficacy of instructional models for students with reading difficulties    

Katherine Meltzoff

Katherine Meltzoff

  katherine.meltzoff@ucr.edu

  • 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

  michael.solis@ucr.edu

  • Vocabulary and reading comprehension interventions
  • Reading practices for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Project READ-ASD (Grades 4-8)    

 

Kinnari Atit

Kinnari Atit

  kinnari.atit@ucr.edu

  • Spatial Thinking
  • STEM Teaching and Learning
  • Leveraging spatial skills to improve mathematics achievement

Marsha Ing

Marsha M Ing

  marsha.ing@ucr.edu

  • Measuring Mathematics and Science teaching and learning
  • Understanding the mechanisms that influence STEM student outcomes
     

Catherine Lussier

Catherine (Cathy) Lussier

  cathy.lussier@ucr.edu

  • 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

Anthony Muro Villa III

  anthony.villa@ucr.edu

  • STEM Teaching and Learning
  • Mathematical learning opportunities

Joi Spencer

Joi A. Spencer

  joi.spencer@ucr.edu

  • Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
  • Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
  • STEM Education
Rita Kohli

Rita Kohli

  rita.kohli@ucr.edu

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Racism/racial justice in education
  • Teaching/teacher ed
  • Teachers of Color

Greg Palardy

Gregory Palardy

  gregory.palardy@ucr.edu

  • Educational Equity
  • Quantitative Methods

Joi Spencer

Joi A. Spencer

  joi.spencer@ucr.edu

  • Educational equity in higher and K-12 education
  • Mathematics learning opportunities of African American and other minoritized youth
  • STEM Education

 

Jan Blacher

Jan Blacher

  jan.blacher@ucr.edu

  • Studies of family impact

Cultural context of disability and Student-teacher relationships and adaptation to school


Steven Bossert

Steven Bossert

  steven.bossert@ucr.edu

  • Sociology of Education
  • Organizational leadership and change
  • School and classroom organization effects

James Dillon

James T Dillon

  james.dillon@ucr.edu

  • Conceptions of teaching, questioning and discussion processes
  • Philosophy of education

Cassandra Guarino

Cassandra Guarino

  cassandra.guarino@ucr.edu

  • Educational equity
  • Teacher quality
  • Teacher labor markets
  • School choice
  • Links between health and education

E. M. Hanson

E M Hanson

  mark.hanson@ucr.edu

  • Governance and decision making in educational institutions
  • Comparative international education, emphasis on Latin America Knowledge transfer and multi-national corporations in Mexico

Asha Jitendra holds the Graduate School of Education's Peloy Chair in Learning Disabilities.

Asha K. Jitendra

  asha.jitendra@ucr.edu

  • Mathematics and reading interventions
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Textbook Analysis    

Richard S Newman

  richard.newman@ucr.edu

  • Academic and social help seeking — School of Education

Reba Page

Reba N Page

  reba.page@ucr.edu

  • How schools are social institutions and in part construct the society we live in by affecting children in various ways

H.L. Swanson

H L Swanson

  lee.swanson@ucr.edu


Athena Waite

  athena.waite@ucr.edu


Keith Widaman

Keith Widaman

  keith.widaman@ucr.edu

  • 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 Wills

John S Wills

  john.wills@ucr.edu

  • History-social studies education
  • Multicultural education
  • Schooling and collective memory

 

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