Graduate Studies in The Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Dr. Peter Afflerbach:  Professor, Ph.D., The University at Albany, State University of New York; joined faculty in 1990; teaching and research interests include reading assessment and related practical and technical issues, the development of reading strategies from novice to expert reader, and the think-aloud methodology.  (301) 405-3159.  (email:  afflo@umd.edu)

Dr. Tara Brown:Assistant Professor, Ed.D., Harvard University; joined faculty in 2005; teaching and research interests  include urban and alternative secondary education, race/ethnicity, class and gender in education and school technology use.  (301) 405-0410. (email: tmbrown@umd.edu)

Dr. Patricia F. Campbell:  Associate Professor, Ph.D., Florida State; joined faculty in 1982; teaching and research interests  focus on enhancing instructional practice and increasing student achievement in mathematics within urban schools.  (301) 405-3129. (email:  patc@umd.edu)

Dr. Marilyn J. Chambliss: Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University; joined faculty in 1996; teaching and research interests include  developing literacy in the content areas of science and social studies.   (301) 405-7410.  (email:  marilyn@umd.edu)    
                              
Dr. Daniel I. Chazan:  Associate Professor, Ed.D.,  Harvard Graduate School of Education; joined the faculty in 2002.  His teacher in research interests include the teaching and learning of secondary school mathematics broadly and, more specifically, the role of students’ ideas, technology which supports student exploration, and the potential of the history and philosophy of mathematics for informing such teaching and learning.  (301) 405-8539 (email:  dchazan@uumd.edu)

Dr. Janet Coffey; Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University; Joined faculty in 2003; teaching and research interests lie in science education, specifically at the intersections of everyday assessment and student learning, teacher change in the realm of assessment, and trends in policy and research in science education. (301) 405-8345 (email: jecoffey@umd.edu)

Dr. Mariam Jean Dreher:  Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside; joined faculty in 1980; teaching and research interests include effective reading instruction especially helping students learn to locate and use information. (301) 405-3158. (email:  mjdreher@umd.edu)

Dr. James T. Fey:  Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University; joined faculty in 1969; teaching  interest  focuses on professional development of middle and high school and mathematics teachers; research emphasizes development and evaluation of innovative mathematics curricula and teaching methods for those levels of schooling, especially the use of emerging calculator and computer technologies. (301) 405-3151.  (email:  jimfey@umd.edu)

Dr. Anna O. Graeber:  Associate Professor, Ed.D., Teachers College Columbia University; joined faculty in 1986; teaching and research interests include students’ alternative conceptions in mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics at the middle school level. (301) 405-7060.  (email:  annagrae@umd.edu)

Dr. David Hammer:  Professor, PhD., University of California, Berkeley; joined faculty in 1998; teaching and research interests include teacher thinking and physics education.  (301) 405-8188.  (email:davidham@umd.edu)

Dr. William G. Holliday:  Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas; joined faculty in 1986; teaching and research interests include learning and teaching linked to content knowledge, strategies, motivation and situated cognition theory, integrated curriculums, and linking teachers to research and policy developments.  (301) 405-3135.  (email:  holliday@umd.edu)

Dr. David Imig: Professor of the Practoce, joined the faculty in Spring 2006; He directs the Center for the Study of Advanced Practice in Education for the College and is leading an effort of the Faculty Senate to better differentiate between the Ph.D. in Education and the Ed.d. His teaching and research interests include teacher education policy, professionalism, pedagogy and practice.

Dr. Stephen Koziol:  Professor and Chair, Joined faculty in 2003; teaching and research interests include English teaching methodology, research and design in teacher education, teacher performance -assessment, policy in teacher education. (301) 405-3117. (email: skoziol@umd.edu).

Dr. Martin L. Johnson:  Associate Dean and Professor, Ed.D., University of Georgia; joined faculty in 1972; teaching and research interests include mathematics learning of minority and young children.  (301) 405-3117.  (email:  mljohnson@umd.edu)

Dr. Millicent I. Kushner:  Assistant Professor, Ed.D., Boston University, joined our faculty in 2002; teaching and research interests include language  and literacy development of English Language Learners with and without disabilities, second language acquisition, and bilingual language development. (301) 405-3148.  (email:  mk275@umail.umd.edu).

Dr. Marvin Lynn:  Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education & Professional Development, Ph.D., University of California, joined faculty in 2001: research interests include the perspectives and experiences of African American male teachers in urban schools; Critical Race Theory and Education; Black Masculinity Studies; African American Education; and the Sociology of Education. (301) 405-5783  (email:  mlynn@umd.edu)

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The Ohio State University; joined faculty in 2002; teaching and research interests include children's and adolescent literature; critical perspectives on literacy education; gender and education. 
(301) 405-2985. (email:  emarshal@umd.edu)

Dr. Melinda Martin-Beltran:  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.  Stanford University, joined faculty in 2006; Teaching and Research  interests include Second language learning, bilingualism and classroom interaction; sociocultural and qualitative research in Second Language Acquisition; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Dr. Joseph McCaleb:   Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; joined faculty in 1976; teaching and research interests include inclusive education and literacy education, particularly the use of storytelling to build community among multicultural learners and for professional development among school staff.  (301) 405-3133. (email:  jlm@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Randy McGinnis:  Professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia; joined faculty in 1993; teaching and research interests include the use of complementary research methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, and discourse) to document and interpret science teaching/learning of teacher candidates in diverse settings.  (301) 405-6234. (email:  jmccginnis@umd.edu)

Dr. Chauncey Monte-Sano:  Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University; joined faculty in 2006; teaching and research interests include learning to write in history classrooms, learning to reason with evidence in history classrooms, learning to think historically, learning to teach history/social studies, effective history/social studies teaching. (301) 405-4461, email: chauncey@umd.edu

Dr. John O’Flahavan:  Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; joined faculty in 1988; teaching and research interests include early literacy, school change, teacher professional development, group discussions about text and spelling. (301) 405-3149.  (email:  johno@umd.edu)

Dr. Rebecca Oxford:  Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, joined our faculty in 2000; teaching and research interests include foreign/second/native language literacy, language teaching methodology, second language acquisition, learning styles and strategies, motivation, and cross-cultural issues.  (301) 405-8157.  (email:  roxford@umd.edu).

Dr. Megan M. Peercy:  Assistant Professor, Joined faculty in 2006.  Teaching and research interests include methods for working with linguistically and culturally diverse learners; contextual factors involved in teaching English language learners (ELLs); and how language interacts with identity, culture, community, and history, as well as producing and sustaining particular knowledge about the teaching and learning of ELLs. (301)405-0067. (email: mpeercy@umd.edu)

Ms. Ann Ryu:  Lecturer, Ph.D. expected December 2006; joined faculty in 2006; teaching and research interests include mathematical cognition, mathematics teacher learning and professional development, the role of discourse and  interaction in learning, issues of equity in mathematics education.  (301)305-6343. (email: annryu@umd.edu).

Dr. Olivia Saracho:  Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; joined faculty in 1978; teaching and research interests include emergent literacy, teacher preparation and cognitive style. (301) 405-3155. (email:  ons@umd.edu)

Dr. Wayne H. Slater:  Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; joined faculty in 1982; teaching and research interests include written communications and reading comprehension.  (301) 405-3128. (email:  wslater@umd.edu)

Dr. Mike Stieff: Assistant Professor. Joined faculty in 2006; teaching and research interests include visualization in science education, computer-based learning environments, undergraduate education, chemistry education, and spatial reasoning. (301) 405-2930.  (email: mstieff@umd.edu)

Dr. Denis Sullivan:  Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; joined faculty in 1975; teaching and research interests include computers in education, translation theory, history of technical education.  (301) 405-3604. (email:  sullivan@umd.edu)

Dr. Jennifer Turner::  Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing; joined faculty in 2003; teaching and research interests include issues of diversity in literacy instruction; culturally responsive reading pedagogy; urban education; and qualitative/narrative methodologies. (301) 405-0433  (email: jdturner@umd.edu)

Dr. Linda Valli:  Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; joined faculty in 1993; teaching and research interests include teacher learning, professional development, cultural diversity, and school improvement.  (301) 405-7924. (email:  lrv@umd.edu)

Dr. Bruce A. VanSledright:  Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State University; joined faculty in 1992; teaching and research interests include social studies education, specifically related to teaching and learning American history.  (301) 405-3141.
(email:  bvansled@umd.edu)

Dr. Thomas Weible:  Professor, Associate Dean, and EDPL Acting Chair, Ph.D., Iowa; joined faculty in 1989; teaching and research interests include teacher certification standards in social studies and research related to the teaching of history.  (301) 405-0413. (email: tweible@umd.edu)

Dr. Donna Wiseman:  Professor and Associate Dean, PhD, University of  Missouri-Columbia; joined faculty in 2001; teaching and research interests include: Teacher Education (Program Development and Restructuring), Urban Education, Professional Development for Diversity, Literacy, specifically  children's literature and early reading and writing behaviors. (301) 405-0866. (email:  dlwise@umd.edu).

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Spencer Benson:  Associate Professor , Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics.

Dr. Edward F. Redish:  Professor, Department of Physics.

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