Faculty Expertise

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instructional design, studio art, teacher education, teacher leadership

adolescent literacy, adolescent multiliteracies, autism, autism spectrum across the lifespan, early childhood, Early Head Start, public education reform, standards-based education, teacher education

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

art and culture, collaboration, contemporary performance practices, dance, performance and live art, performing arts as individual and cultural expression

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

educating for democracy, emancipatory potential of education, philosophy and practice of nonviolence, philosophy of education

coevolution, complex adaptive systems, development of teaching practice, disease modeling, evolutionary theory, higher education, Interdisciplinary STEM education, Mathematical and Computational Biology, resource-user networks