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.
Director of UC Davis MIND Institute and Tsakopoulos-Vismara
Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences
(916) 703-0234 leonard.abbeduto@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Language development; Family processes; Telehealth; Fragile X
syndrome; Autism; Down syndrome
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
Robert Blake
Director, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
(UCCLLT)
(530) 754-7153
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese rjblake@ucdavis.edu
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
Director of UC Davis K-14 Outreach Center for Computing and
STEM Education (C-STEM); and Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering
(530)752-5020 hhcheng@ucdavis.edu
Technology in teaching and learning, engineering
education, computing education, mathematics education,
science education, information technology and robotics in
math and science education, learning in informal settings,
collaborative learning, learning through robotics competitions
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.
Associate 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
Associate 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
Julia Svoboda
Project Scientist, Innovations in Science Instruction through
Modeling (ISIM)
School of Education jmsvoboda@ucdavis.edu
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 Executive 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
Associate 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.
Director of Research and Policy for Equity
SAYS Founder and Director
(530) 370-2889 vmwatson@ucdavis.edu
Educational equity, sociology of education,
critical literacy, social justice youth development,
incarcerated youth, community-based school reform, urban
education, pre-service teacher training and professional
development, Critical Race Theory, Portraiture and
Ethnography.
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
Associate 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
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.
