Graduate field members in the department of education

Graduate Field of Education Faculty: Research Interests

Name/Title/Email	Research Interests
N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba Professor na12@cornell.edu	Colonial/post-colonial education; women's education; equity issues in education finance; educational innovations and distance learning
Rosemary S. Caffarella Professor rsc29@cornell.edu	Adult learning; program planning and evaluation; leadership development; international community development
William G. (Bill) Camp Professor wgc4@cornell.edu	Pedagogy; program planning; teacher induction; qualitative research methods; professional development of beginning teachers
Mark A. Constas Associate Professor mac223@cornell.edu	Scientific inquiry and the practice of education research; integrated research designs; transitions in the discourse of education
Barbara A. Crawford Associate Professor bac45@cornell.edu	Teachers' and students' understandings of inquiry and the nature of science; knowledge of scientific models and modeling; communities of learners
Ronald G. Ehrenberg Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations rge2@cornell.edu	Economic analyses of higher education, elementary and secondary education; behavioral models of the educational sector
Geraldine K. Gay Department Chair and Professor gkg1@cornell.edu	Cognitive and social issues for the design and use of interactive communication technologies; knowledge management; mental models and metaphors; knowledge representations; collaborative work and learning; system design
Stephen F. Hamilton Professor sfh3@cornell.edu	Adolescent development and education, especially education and employment during the transition to adulthood; work-based learning, mentoring, and service learning
David W. Henderson Professor dwh2@cornell.edu	Geometric topology; mathematics education
James B. Maas Professor S. H. Weiss Presidential Fellow jbm1@cornell.edu	Communication; media-based educational programs
Alexandra Moore Visiting Professor am113@cornell.edu	Education in earth science
Travis D. Park Assistant Professor tdp9@cornell.edu	Effects of reading comprehension intervention on agriscience student achievement; teacher adoption of interstructional methods; agricultural literacy processes involved in using the tools of agricultural science
Scott J. Peters Assistant Professor sp236@cornell.edu	The history and philosophy of extension education; the civic mission of higher education and the land-grant idea; the role of NGO's and the community-based organizations in education and organizing for democracy
Troy Richardson Assistant Professor tar37@cornell.edu	Fostering ethical inter-cultural relations; philosophy of education; continental philosophy; multicultural education; American Indian Studies
Dawn E. Schrader Associate Professor des14@cornell.edu	Ethics and moral education; the socio-moral climate of schools and committees; the role of metacognition in cognitive, moral and intellectual development
John W. Sipple Associate Professor jws28@cornell.edu	Political pressures and institutional constraints that impact behavior of teachers, administrators, schools and districts; state-level politics and policies; local school organization responses to new standards
William M. Trochim Professor wmt1@cornell.edu	Experimental design; computer simulations of novel statistical analytical approaches; investigations of quality, implementation, and conceptualizations of research
Deborah J. Trumbull Professor djt2@cornell.edu	Teachers' understanding of inquiry and uses of curriculum; teacher development; methodological and philosophical issues in interpretive and qualitative research
Terry Tucker Courtesy Lecturer twt2@cornell.edu	International agricultural extension; university engagement in international development
Sofia A. Villenas Associate Professor sav33@cornell.edu	Anthropology of education; Latino schooling and family education; race/ethnicity in education; Latina/Chicana feminist studies in education
Arthur L. Wilson Department Chair and Professor aw87@cornell.edu	Program planning practice in adult and extension education; transformational learning and socio-cultural theories of learning; post-colonial studies in international adult education and extension; politics of education; alternative research methods