| Name | Faculty Level/ Title | Primary Dept | Highest Degree(s) | Research/ Interests | Other Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louise Ammentorp | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Rutgers University | Best practices in teacher preparation; Developing field-based collaboration skills in pre-service teachers; Teaching and learning through the arts; Facilitating the development of life-long learners; Teaching for social justice; etc. | |
| Helene Anthony | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Michigan State University | Literacy instruction; strategies for effective inclusion of students with disabilities | Serves as Undergraduate Co-Coordinator. Received a Key Award from the Trenton Public Education Foundation for implementing an after-school tutoring program at Stokes Elementary School with TCNJ special education majors serving as tutors; etc. |
| Marissa Bellino | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | |||
| James Beyers | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., University of Delaware | Teacher Candidates Mathematical Dispositions; How Teacher Candidates’ Mathematical Dispositions are Related to Learning Mathematics; How Teacher Candidates’ Mathematical Dispositions are Related to Teaching Mathematics; etc. | Serves as Co-Director of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship program at TCNJ. |
| Lynn Booth | Assist. P-T | Ed Admin Sec Education | Professional Development Programs | ||
| Greer Burroughts | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhoo | Ed.D., Rutgers Graduate School of Education | Research interests include: Education for democratic citizenship, Performance-based assessment, Literacy infusion in social studies, Peace education, and Best practices in teacher education. | Professional affiliations include: National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA), Human Rights Educators (HRE USA NJ), Collegiate Alliance for Social Education (CASE), etc. |
| David Bwire | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Ohio State University | Research interests include: Transcultural literacy practices; digital literacies and multimodal pedagogy in K-12 classrooms; new literacy studies; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication and qualitative research methods; collaborative and online | Articles published in Journal of Transformative Education, Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal, and African Journal of Teacher Education; Book reviews published in Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Journal of Social Sciences Research, etc. |
| Stuart Carroll | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Syracuse U | Inclusion in post-secondary education; Pre-service teacher literacy and world knowledge; Elementary teacher education; International education | |
| Marion Cavallaro | Assoc. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – Ohio State University | Curriculum strategies in teaching career counseling and counseling theory, Career counseling needs of diverse populations, Clinical supervision strategies, Counselor education faculty development | She serves as the Clinical Mental Health Program Coordinator. |
| Maureen Connolly | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ed.D. Instr. Ldrshp, St. John’s U. | Service learning, literacy standards and assessment, and mentoring. | Serves as the interim MAT Coordinator. |
| Anthony Conte | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ed.D., Penn State | Systemic initiatives addressing the integration of Mathematics, Science & Technology in the elementary classroom; Urban education with a concentration on narrowing the achievement gap among students | He coordinates student teaching for undergraduates and graduates. He supervises Global Student Teachers in Manchester, England; Botswana, Africa; Zagreb, Croatia; Trieste, Italy; Udine, Italy; Paris, France; and Zurich, Switzerland. |
| Jonathan David | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | |||
| Jonathan Davis | Ed Admin Sec Education | ||||
| Amy Dell | Prof. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., U of Rochester | Assistive technology for children and adults with disabilities; effective strategies for teaching teachers how to integrate assistive technology into their classrooms | She serves as Graduate Coordinator and Director of TCNJ’s Center on Assistive Technology and Inclusive Education Studies (CATIES); author (with D. Newton & J. Petroff), Assistive Technology in the Classroom |
| Tabitha Dell-Angelo | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., U Penn | Social Justice in the Classroom; Cultural Identity Development; Teacher Research; Improvisational Acting/Theatre of the Oppressed; Yoga 4 Classrooms | She serves as the Urban Education Coordinator |
| Sarah Domire | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D. in Special Education from Penn State University; M.Ed. in Urban Education from Mercy College | Video-based instruction, academic and behavioral interventions for students with autism spectrum disorders and severe disabilities, augmentative and alternative communication, and teacher preparation. | Published work in Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, Conference presentations at the International Council for Exceptional Children Conference (CEC), The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps Conference (TASH), etc. |
| Jody Eberly | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ed.D., Rutgers | Teacher Dispositions Toward Diversity; Culturally Responsive Home-School Relationships; Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education; Shared Supervision Practices within the Professional Development School | |
| Sandy Gibson | Assoc. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – U. of Maryland | Substance abuse, addiction, and criminal offender behaviors, Counseling women, Group counseling strategies, Youth-based prevention services, Program development, research and evaluation | She serves as the Clinical Coordinator. |
| Brian Girard | Assoc. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ph.D. Ed Fdns & Policy, U. of Michigan | Social studies and history teaching and teacher education; decision-making and planning in world history classrooms; disciplinary literacy in history; classroom community development; multicultural teaching practices. | Serves as a Secondary Education Coordinator (undergraduate). |
| Karen Gordon | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Teachers College, Columbia University – Doctoral Studies, Educating Professions Yale University – M.Ph., Health Administration and Health Education | Academic interests include the intersection and impact of health and academic experiences for adolescents and young adults, professional preparation, multicultural teaching and learning environments. | In addition to teaching a variety of courses in the EASE department, she teaches in the TCNJ graduate global programs in Bangkok and Caracas , as well as a course in comparative public health in the TCNJ Department of Sociology and Anthropology. |
| Karen Gordon | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Doctoral Studies, Teachers College of Columbia U; MPH, Yale U. | The intersection and impact of health and academic experiences for adolescents and young adults, professional preparation, multicultural teaching and learning environments | Part-time faculty member. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in the EASE department, she teaches in the TCNJ graduate global programs in Bangkok and Caracas , as well as a course in comparative public health in the TCNJ Department of Sociology |
| Colette Gosselin | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ed.D., Philosophical Fdns of Ed, Rutgers U. | Serves as a Secondary Education Coordinator (undergraduate). | ||
| Matthew Hall | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., New York University | Multimodal composing practices; creativity in literacy practices; new and digital literacies in K-12 classrooms | He serves as the Reading Coordiantor. He has had articles published in The Reading Teacher and Literacy; Conference presentations at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the International Reading Association (IRA), etc. |
| Eileen Heddy | Instr. | Elementary Early Childhood | M.A., Rutgers | ||
| Blythe Hinitz | Prof. | Elementary Early Childhood | Doctorate, Temple University | History of Education/ History of Early Childhood Education; Anti-HIBT [Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying and Teasing]; Peace Education; Holocaust Education; Social Studies Education; Multicultural/ Tolerance Education, etc. | She was identified as a Distinguished Professor, |
| Arti Joshi | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Syracuse U | Working with Asian Indian families /teachers; Home-school relations; Cultural diversity in the context of school settings (pre-K- Elementary); Multiculturalism in the context of teacher preparation; Partnership with Professional Development Schools | |
| MinSoo Kim-Bossard | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D. Penn State, Curriculum and Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Comparative and International Education | Research combines the fields of educational anthropology, reconceptualist scholarship in early childhood education, and studio-based pedagogical practices borrowed from art education. | Professional Affiliations: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education, American Educational Research Association, American Anthropological Association, Comparative and International Education Society |
| Donald Leake | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ph.D., Ed Ldrshp, Ohio State U. | Teacher/principal evaluation, effective urban schools, organizational change | Serves as the Coordinator for Educational Leadership. | |
| Brenda Leake | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Ohio State University | Social justice and empowerment through education; policits of schooling and education; urban education and national & global contexts; empowerment of teachers and learners | She coordinates the Masters of Arts in Elementary Teaching program, and the TCNJ-Johannesburg, South Africa Graduate programs. |
| Solange Lopes-Murphy | Assoc. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D. | Cultural competence, designing educational experiences that develop cultural competence, and best practices in preparing teachers to teach second language learners | She spent two months in China in 2010 on a Fulbright-Hays Summer Program; presented papers at conferences in Argentina, Brazil, England, Mexico, Chile, and Peru, and has developed intercultural practicum and instructional experiences for college students |
| Lauren Madden | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., North Carolina State U | Using interactive science notebooks; benefits of scientist-educator collaboration; pre-service teachers’ perspectives on the importance of STEM education; effective pairing of pre-service teachers in field placements | |
| Lynnette Mawhinney | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Temple U | Professional lives of urban teachers; educational life histories of African-American pre-service teachers; formally incarcerated adults and early school leavers; conflict resolution education and social/emotional learning; auto ethnography; diversifying the teaching field; teacher education at Minority-Serving Institutions | She is a Master Trainer in Conflict Resolution and is trained in Basic Mediation. |
| Linda Mayger | Assist. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ed.D., Lehigh U | quantitative and mixed methods; social capital and academic achievement among K-12 students; cumulative risk exposure and post secondary degree completion; distributed leadership; applications of school law and policy | |
| Ruth Palmer | Assoc. | Ed Admin Sec Education | Ph.D., Ed Psych, Howard U. | Professional preparation of pre-service teachers | |
| Alex Pan | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D. U of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana | Teacher development and supervision; the effects of globalization; multicultural awareness; emotional intelligence; critical thinking vs. creative thinking; comparative studies of the eastern and western cultures; global education; etc. | |
| Nadya Pancsofar | Assoc. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Children’s language development; influence of family on language development; collaborative relationships in classroom communities | She serves as an Undergraduate Co-Coordinator. She has had articles published in Teacher Education and Special Education(2013), Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (2013, 2008, 2006), Early Childhood Research Quarterly (2010, 2008). |
| Jeff Passe | Dean | Dean | Ph.D., U. of Florida | Middle school education, sustainability education; current events instruction, curriculum integration, and the marginalization of citizenship education | He served as President of the National Council for the Social Studies as well as president of state social studies councils in West Virginia and Maryland. His books include Elementary School Curriculum and When Students Choose Content |
| Anne Peel | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ed.D., Rutgers U | Understanding writing engagement and disengagement among adolescent students; how engagement influences learning outcomes | She holds certification in Secondary English; taught English for 14 years |
| Jerry Petroff | Prof. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Temple U | Supporting individuals who are deaf:blind; transition to post:secondary life for students with severe disabilities; early communication and family life of students with complex sensory disabilities | Has co-authored (with A. Dell & D. Newton), Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities – 2ndEdition (2012), Pearson. Director, Center on Complex Sensory Disabilities; Principal Investigator |
| Melanie Phillips | Assist. P-T | Special Education/Lang/Lit | |||
| Karen Prince | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ed.D., Temple U | Integrating Curriculum and Inclusion of Children’s Literature in Elementary and Early Childhood Teaching; Thematic Instruction; Children’s Literature (particularly multicultural literature; family themes; peace as a central theme); Art History and Integration | |
| Shridevi Rao | Assoc. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Syracuse U | Cultural constructions of disability, inclusive education, positive behavior supports; teacher candidate resistance to dominant constructions of disability | She has conducted several ethnographic studies and authored articles on families’, teachers’, and teacher candidates’ constructions of disability; has had articles published in International Journal of Inclusive Education and Disability and Society |
| Lina Richardson | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Temple University | Research interests include: Educational experiences of students in urban schools, Professional development of pre- and in-service urban school teachers, Teaching and learning of African American history, Best practices for teaching African American history | |
| Stuart Roe | Assist. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – Penn State U. | Supervision and evaluation of school counselors, providing social support for gay, lesbian and bisexual students, the experiences of English language learners in public school settings | He serves as the School Counseling Program Coordinator. He has a variety of experiences within educational settings including teaching at the college level, teaching in high schools, administering a family literacy program, teaching GED classes, etc. |
| Jill Schwarz | Assist. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – Montclair State U. | Gender Issues in Counseling, Spirituality in Counseling, Animal-assisted Therapy, School Counseling Preparation and Practice | She has certification as an elementary school teacher and school counselor. She is the director of School Counseling Services in New Jersey, and is a National Certified Counselor. |
| Atsuko Seto | Assoc. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – U. of Wyoming | Creativity in counseling and counselor preparation, counseling with intercultural couples, multiracial children, and immigrant families, fostering resiliency of Asian /Asian American families; resiliency among immigrant families and cross-national couples | Her experiences drew her into learning about immigrant families from Asia, particularly assisting them with fostering resiliency to cope with varying degrees of acculturative stressors. |
| Lauren Shallish | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Syracuse University, Cultural Foundations of Education; M.S. and C.A.S., Syracuse University, Disability Studies | Disability studies; diversity work; higher education; qualitative research methods; social justice education | Shallish is currently a diversity scholar for the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, the IGI Global Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs, etc. |
| Lisa Silver | Assist. | Elementary Early Childhood | |||
| Steven Singer | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Syracuse University | Research interests include: Deaf studies, Deaf education, disability studies, transition to adulthood, qualitative research methods, and disability identity development. | Steve is a Teacher of the Deaf and a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator. Steve has worked as a qualitative research assistant at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, an assistant at the New York parent advocacy center, etc. |
| Lynn Smith | Assist. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., City University of NY | Speech perception of children who are hard of hearing, specifically the segments of speech signals that are particularly difficult for these children to perceive | She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology from the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association; worked as an otolaryngologist in private practice as well as in a hospital setting; served as chair of TCNJ’s Institutional Review Board |
| Barbara Strassman | Prof. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ed.D., Columbia U | Technology and writing instruction | She serves as the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Education Coordinator. She holds Certifications as Teacher of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Reading Specialist, Teacher of Reading, and Principal/Supervisor. Publications in American Annals of the Deaf |
| Deborah Thompson | Assoc. | Elementary Early Childhood | Ph.D., Ohio State University | Cultural variants of folk and fairy tales; use of multicultural children’s literature in elementary classrooms; use of non-fiction/informational test in elementary classrooms | |
| Jean Wong | Assoc. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., UCLA | How conversation analysis (CA) may be used as a resource for understanding language-in-use particularly in first and second language interaction; the intersection between CA and second language pedagogy, which includes raising second/foreign language teachers | She has co-authored (with Dr. Hansun Waring) a book that provides an introduction to conversation analysis geared |
| Mark Woodford | Prof. | Counselor Education | Ph.D. – U. of Virginia | Home-based family services, Adolescent and young adult substance abuse prevention and early intervention, Recovering college students, Male-specific substance abuse and addiction counseling; substance abuse and family counseling with a specific emphasis o | He is the Family Program Coordinator. He is a licensed professional counselor, a master addiction counselor, and a national certified counselor, and has worked in community-, family-, and school-based prevention and early intervention programs |
| Yiqiang Wu | Assoc. | Special Education/Lang/Lit | Ph.D., Texas A&M University | Trouble spots in second language learning; vocabulary building techniques; and learning efficiency | He serves as the TESL Coordinator. |