Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions

Research Interests Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Rene Arcilla - Associate Professor of Educational Philosophy; Department Chair
    • Current Research: I have been working on a philosophical theory of liberal learning, one that distinguishes this learning from instrumental forms of learning and roots it in a vision of our human condition and of what is good for that condition.
  • Richard Arum - Professor of Sociology and Education
    • Education
    • Legal and institutional environments of schools
    • Social Stratification
    • Student achievement and socialization
    • Formal organizations
    • Self employment
  • Joy G. Boyum - Professor of English Education: Director, Studies in Arts and Humanities Education
    • Film and literature, with a particular focus on adaptation, and critical theory, with special attention to reader-response criticism.
  • Sean Corcoran - Assistant Professor of Educational Economics
    • state and local public finance
    • teacher labor markets
    • school finance
    • applied (micro) econometrics
  • Floyd M. Hammack - Associate Professor of Educational Sociology and Higher Education
    • High School Reform
    • Social Inequality and Education
  • Mary Leou - Clinical Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning
    • Teacher Development (pre-service and inservice)
    • Urban environmental education
    • School reform
    • Experiential Learning
  • Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Assistant Professor of International Education and Educational Sociology
    • My research interests focus on the relationships among education, nationalism, and ethnic conflict.
  • Gabriel Moran - Professor of Religious Education
    • Professional Ethics
    • Dying and Death
    • International Ethics
    • Philosophy of Education
    • Religion in education
  • Elizabeth Norman - Professor
    • long term outcomes of trauma and war
    • american professions
    • employing new technology in qualitative methods
    • historical inquiry
    • cross-cultural historical research
    • qualitative methodologies
    • women in the military
    • prisoners of war
  • Diane Ravitch - Research Faculty
    • History of Education, Politics of Education, Federal Policy, Urban Education
  • Marc A. Scott - Associate Professor of Educational Statistics
    • Statistics
    • Stratification
    • Work and Occupations
    • Economics of Education
    • Higher Education
    • Biostatistics
  • Mitchell L. Stevens - Associate Professor of Educational Sociology
    • Higher Education
    • Quantification
    • Complex organizations
    • Sociology of culture
    • alternative educational forms
    • Qualitative methods
  • Lisa Stulberg - Assistant Professor of Educational Sociology
    • sociology of race and education, African American schooling, urban schooling, school choice, charter schools, affirmative action
  • Marcelo Suárez-Orozco - The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education
    • Immigration and globalization
    • Cultural psychology
    • Psychological anthropology
    • Culture and education
  • Sharon L. Weinberg - Professor of Educational Statistics and Psychology
    • School Reform
    • Statistics
    • Statistics Education
    • Faculty Diversity
    • Higher Education
  • Jonathan Zimmerman - Professor of Educational History
    • Twentieth Century History of Education
    • Democratic Community and Education
    • Immigration History
    • The influence of schools on development