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Senior Fellow
- History of U.S. education
- Educational leadership
- School-community relationship
- Civic education
Senior Fellow
- Higher education governance
- Leadership and management
- Higher education trends
- Change management
- Trusteeship
Senior Fellow
- Education reform at all levels of the education system
- Taking education reform and innovation to scale
- Educational programs and finance strategies to support less advantaged groups
- Globalization, international student mobility, and international education
Senior Lecturer
- (Im)migrants and schooling
- Civic engagement
- Anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia
- Citizenship and trans/nationalism
- Curriculum and pedagogy in international contexts
- School climate
- Educational development discourse
Professor Emeritus of Education
- Educational linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Educational ethnography and anthropology
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
- Multilingualism and language education policy
- Ethnography of language policy
- Indigenous education and language revitalization
Professor of Practice
- Qualitative Research
- Inquiry Stance and Practitioner Research
- School- and Community-based Research
- Rapid-cycle Leader Inquiry
- Teacher and Counselor Education and Professional Development
- Racial Literacy and Brave Space Pedagogy
- Anti-racist Professional and Organizational Development
- Communities of Practice and Applied Research Teams
- Conceptual Frameworks and Theories of Action
- Participatory Action Research (and YPAR)
- Humanizing Pedagogies and Methodologies
- Case Studies as Development Strategy
Professor
- Language assessment
- Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural learning and teaching
- Second language acquisition among young learners
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
Assistant Professor
- Poverty and child development
- Risk and resilience
- Early childhood education
- School readiness
- Teacher professional development
- Program evaluation
Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology
- Immigration, race relations, and education
- Citizenship, cultural politics, and national incorporation
- Class, socialization, and social stratification
- Social theory
- Ethnographic research
Assistant Professor
- Anthropology of education and politics
- Youth activism and cultural practices
- Community and student activism
- Africa and the African diaspora
- New media and popular culture
- Ethnographic, qualitative, and multimodal research methods
UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy
- International education and development
- Literacy, learning, and cognition in children, youth, and adults
- Language acquisition and multi-lingualism
- Educational technologies
- Educational psychology
Professor and Board of Advisors Chair of Education
- Academic governance and leadership in higher education
- Institutional mission
- Civic engagement and the democratic purposes of higher education
- Higher education reform