All of our PhD faculty are members of the Graduate Group in
Education (GGE). The GGE also includes a number of faculty from
other schools and colleges at UC Davis.
Professor of Education
(530) 754-9150 jabedi@ucdavis.edu
Assessment; Classical theory of measurement; English Learners;
Experimental design; Psychometrics; Quantitative methods
Associate Professor of Education
(530) 754-4831 rcambrose@ucdavis.edu
Elementary Education; Gender and equity issues in mathematics
education; In-service and preservice teacher learning;
Mathematics education
Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Management
Gallagher Hall, Room 3414
(530) 752-3871 swanderson@ucdavis.edu
Teacher compensation models, principal effectiveness, performance
management systems, learning diagnostic systems, school
management, charter schools, and quantitative analysis.
Professor of Education
(530) 752-2621 szathanases@ucdavis.edu
Educational equity; English language arts education; Gay and
lesbian issues in education; Minority/Underrepresented Students;
Multicultural literature and literacy; Secondary Education;
Teacher education research and policy
Professor, Department of Linguistics
(530) 752-3209 rjbayley@ucdavis.edu
Second language acquisition and development; language
socialization and variation; language brokering in classrooms
Assistant Professor of Education
(530) 752-2367 anbooker@ucdavis.edu
Learning in Informal Settings; Qualitative Methodology; Social
contexts of teaching, learning and educational research;
Technology in teaching and learning; Urban education
Professor of Human Development
(530) 752-2242 bkbryant@ucdavis.edu
School psychology; social-emotional development; stress and
coping; classroom environments (e.g., cooperative goal
structures); family, school, and neighborhood environments;
sibling and peer relations; parent-child relations.
Associate Professor of Education and Director of Undergraduate
Programs
(530) 752-4427 ccching@ucdavis.edu
Child Development; Collaborative Learning; Gender and technology;
Learning in Informal Settings; Qualitative Methodology;
Technology and identity
Professor of Spanish
(530) 752-1244 cmcolombi@ucdavis.edu
Spanish language development, pragmatics, functional grammar and
Spanish in the United States.
Professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies
(530) 752-1979 adelatorre@ucdavis.edu
Health care access and finance issues that affect the Latino
community as well as Border health issues.
Assistant Professor of Education kaenright@ucdavis.edu
Academic language; Academic literacy; English learners; Language
development and socialization; First- and second-language
writing; Latino youth
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental
Design
(530) 752-9145 peowens@ucdavis.edu
Adolescent development and the built environment, design of
educational environments, participatory action research and
qualitative methods (including youth-produced media)
Professor of Education, Director of Teacher Education, and Dolly
and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher Education
(530) 752-4036 cjfaltis@ucdavis.edu
Bilingual Education; Critical Race Theory; English Learners in
Secondary School; Immigrants in Schools
Professor, University Writing Program drferris@ucdavis.edu
Second language writing, second language reading, response to
student writing, second language teacher education, composition
pedagogy
Associate Director of Teacher Education
(530) 752-5395 bggoldman@ucdavis.edu
Assessment; Educational Program evaluation; In-service and
preservice teacher learning; School, curriculum and community
change; Secondary Education; Teacher evaluation; Elementary
Education
Professor of Spanish, Professor of Education
(530) 754-7988 crigonzalez@ucdavis.edu
Education Policy and Governance; Educational Leadership; Graduate
education issues; Hispanic culture; History of Latinos in the
U.S.; History of higher education; History of the University of
California; Minority leadership issues; Status of the Spanish
language in the U.S.; Undergraduate education issues; Women’s
leadership issues
Acting Director, Public Service Research Program
(530) 752-7823 jjgutstein@ucdavis.edu
Science education outreach, linkage between formal and nonformal
education, environmental education and museum science.
Professor of Pediatrics, Endowed Chair in Fragile X Research,
Medical Director of the MIND Institute, Director of the Fragile X
Treatment and Research Center
(916) 703-0247 randi.hagerman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Targeted treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders including
fragile X syndrome, premutation involvement including the fragile
X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), and autism; newborn
screening for fragile X syndrome and aging studies in
developmental disorders.
Professor of Education, Associate Dean, and Co-Director of
CANDEL
(530) 752-8309 peheckman@ucdavis.edu
Curriculum theory and change; Educational Ecology of communities;
Educational Leadership; School, curriculum and community change;
School restructuring: Organizational arrangements and structures;
School culture: change and cognition
Professor of Anthropology, Women & Gender Studies
(530) 752-1593
sjoseph@ucdavis.edu
Gender and sexuality; women and development; family systems cross
culturally; family, individual, and state in the Middle East.
Professor of Textiles & Clothing, Women & Gender
Studies,
(530) 752-9277
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Cultural studies of style and fashion; intersections among
various facets of identity-related development and pedagogy
(e.g., gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, social class, age).
Associate Professor of Education
(530) 752-3748 mkurlaender@ucdavis.edu
Education Policy; Educational Program evaluation; Educational
stratification and equity; Access and success and postsecondary
schooling; Desegregation; Economics of education; Quantitative
methods; Sociology of education
Dean of School of Education
(530) 752-4663 hlevine@ucdavis.edu
Entrepreneurship in Education; Organizational
structure/effectiveness; Qualitative Methodology
Assistant Professor of Education
(530) 752-2854 leemartin@ucdavis.edu
Adaptive Expertise; Learning and Cognition; Learning in Informal
Settings; Mathematics Education
Assistant Developmental Psychology and Education Researcher,
M.I.N.D. Institute
(916) 703-0256 ammastergeorge@ucdavis.edu
Typical and atypical development birth to five, early
intervention, collaborative learning environments, school reform,
parent-child interaction.
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
(530) 752-0715 jemwarwick@ucdavis.edu
Relationships between second language instruction and the
linguistic/cultural identities of teachers and learners; second
language literacy development in specific social contexts,
especially as it relates to first language literacies, and to
bilingual and bicultural family literacies; ethnographic and case
study methodologies, including interviewing and classroom
observation, and life-history narratives.
Professor of Education
(530) 752-3353 bjmerino@ucdavis.edu
Assessment; Bilingual Education; Classroom discourse; Elementary
Education; English Learners; In-service and preservice teacher
learning; Language Acquisition; Language assessment; Latina/o
educational issues; Literacy development; Science Literacy;
Secondary Education; Science Education; Sociolinguistics and
psycholinguistics; Teacher education research and policy;
Teaching of Spanish to native Spanish speakers
Associate Professor of Human and Community Development
(530) 752-3955
lmsmiller@ucdavis.edu
Cognition and learning in adulthood; Changes in cognitive
abilities in later life; Language comprehension and memory;
Self-efficacy and control beliefs related to cognitive processes;
Lifelong learning
Chief Education Officer, Center for Biophotonics
(530) 754-5305 mmolinaro@ucdavis.edu
Developing evaluation techniques for technology use in formal and
informal educational settings, research on learning in
free-choice environments especially as related to understanding
of research, how students engage with and use technology in a
free-choice setting with a focus on social interactions, using
technology to assess student understanding.
Professor of Education
(530) 752-0921 pcmundy@ucdavis.edu
Child Development; Counseling; Early Childhood Education; Mental
health consultation; Mental health promotion in schools; Special
education
Assistant Professor of Human and Community Development
(530) 752-7003 anishina@ucdavis.edu
Adolescent mental health, peer relations, ethnicity/contextual
moderators, school-based preventions and interventions, mental
health and physical symptoms, and methodological issues.
Associate Professor of Economics
(530) 752-1551 mepage@ucdavis.edu
Economic returns to education; Human capital; School choice and
neighborhood effects; Class size reduction
Lecturer/Supervisor, Science Credential Program, School of
Education
(530) 752-0622 jrpomeroy@ucdavis.edu
In-service and preservice teacher learning; Interdisciplinary
Instruction; Science Education; Secondary Education; Technology
in Science; Technology in teaching and learning
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics
(530) 752-3305 whpotter@ucdavis.edu
Physics/physical science learning at all levels, constructivist
approaches to curriculum design and classroom practice; teacher
preparation and professional development.
Professor Emeritus Chicana(o) Studies and Agricultural &
Resource Economics
(530) 752-3904 rirochin@ucdavis.edu
Representation of minorities in science; Agricultural economics;
Community development & education; Leadership development
Associate Professor of Education
(530) 754-6256 gmrodriguez@ucdavis.edu
Educational leadership; Latino/a education issues; School
finance, Social justice in education
Assistant Professor of Education
(530) 752-1407 hmrose@ucdavis.edu
Economics of education; Education Policy and Governance;
Quantitative methods; School finance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of the ADHD Program, M.I.N.D. Institute
(916) 703-0450 Julie.schweitzer@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
The identification and treatment of attention-deficit/
hyperactivity (ADHD) and related disorders in children and adults
using behavioral/neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging
methods; Self-control in ADHD; Alterations in reward and learning
in psychopathology; Applied behavior analysis
Associate Professor in Sociology
(530) 754-8072 kashauman@ucdavis.edu
Gender inequalities in careers & earnings; Women in science
fields from high school through occupations
Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Director of the University
Writing Program
(530) 754-9197 cjthaiss@ucdavis.edu
Teaching of writing; writing in disciplines and professions;
writing across the curriculum; writing program design and
administration; reading-writing connections.
Professor of Deparment of Psychology
(530) 754-6663 rathompson@ucdavis.edu
Parent-child relationships, early emotional development and
emotion regulation, development of prosocial motivation,
applications of developmental science to public policy
Professor of Education and Faculty Director of CAP-Ed
(530) 754-6654 tbtimar@ucdavis.edu
Education Policy and Governance; International education policy
and governance; School finance
Associate Professor of Education
(530) 752-2623 cjtrexler@ucdavis.edu
Agricultural Education; Agri-food system literacy;
Service-learning; Secondary Education; Science Education;
Technology in Science; Technology in teaching and learning
Assistant Professor of Education
(530) 754-6271 yuchikoshi@ucdavis.edu
Bilingual Education; Educational Television; English Learners;
Language Acquisition; Language development and socialization;
Literacy development; Quantitative methods; Sociolinguistics and
psycholinguistics
Professor and Chair, Department of Native American Studies
(530) 752-0357 svarese@ucdavis.edu
Social, political and cultural anthropology especially native
American indigenous populations, Indian community development,
agroecological and sustainable development, cultural, economic,
political self-determination, territorial management, rural-urban
migration, transnational migration, cultural resource management,
poverty alleviation strategies, human rights.
Professor in Geology
(540) 752-6911 verosub@geology.ucdavis.edu
Science Education; Improvement of science teaching at the K-12
and undergraduate levels.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science
(530) 752-3241 walters@cs.ucdavis.edu
Technology and learning, instructional design, teaching foreign
languages, new strategies to enhance distance learning.
Professor of Education
(510) 527-5076 kawatsongegeo@ucdavis.edu
Anthropology of consciousness; Bilingual Education; Child
Development; Classroom discourse; Classroom research; Community
and rural development; Critical discourse analysis; Cultural
studies; Education in Developing Countries; Ethnography and
Ethnographic research; Feminist theory; Geographical areas of
Hawai’i and Solomon Islands; Indigenous epistemology; Language
Acquisition; Language development and socialization; Language
socialization theory; Linguistic anthropology; Literacy and
Language policy; Organizational structure/effectiveness;
Pidgin/creole languages; Social disability studies;
Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
Assistant Professor of Education
Collaborative learning; Learning and Cognition; Mathematics
Education; Technology in Mathematics; Technology in Science;
Technology in Teaching and Learning
(530) 752-9348 tfwhite@ucdavis.edu
Associate Professor, University Writing Program
(530) 754-6903 cwwhithaus@ucdavis.edu
The impact of information technologies on literacy; Writing in
the disciplines and professions (science writing), and writing
assessment.
