Emeriti & Retired Faculty

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Steven Athanases

Professor Emeritus

Portrait of Steven Athanases

Steven Athanases is a Professor in the School of Education at UC Davis. 

Principal Investigator, Teachers as Learners Project, James S. McDonnell Foundation, New Teachers Learning Disciplined Improvisation for Meaningful Talk in Diverse Classrooms, 2018-2023.

Director of Research, Center for Shakespeare in Diverse Classrooms, UC Davis, in partnership with Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe, London (Patrick Spottiswoode, Director). 2018-

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Glen Phillip Cartwright

Professor Emeritus

Education

PhD – University of Pittsburgh
Master of Science – University of Illinois
Bachelor of Science – University of Illinois

Professional Experience

Research Psychologist, Science Research Association – Chicago, IL
Faculty & Administration – Pennsylvania State University
Associate Dean & CIO – Northeast Ohio College of Medicine

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Laura Dubcovsky

Retired Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education

Portrait of Laura Dubcovsky

Education

  • PhD, Spanish Department. University of California, Davis.  (December 2003).
  • MA, Education.
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Linnea C. Ehri

Retired Professor

Education

PhD (Educational Psychology) – UC Berkeley

Professional Experience

Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology – City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (1991-present)
Research & teaching – UC Davis (1969-1991)

Activities

Research studies on how children learn to read and spell
Supervise research of PhD students

Faculty Profile Bilingual Education; Critical Race Theory; English Learners in Secondary School; Immigrants in Schools

Christian Faltis

Professor Emeritus

Portrait of Christian Faltis

Chris Faltis holds degrees from San Francisco State University, San José State University, and Stanford University, where he earned an MA and PhD. Prior to coming to UC Davis, he served on the faculties of Arizona State University and the Universities of Alabama and Nevada. Faltis was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley.

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Michele Fortes

Lecturer / Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus

Portrait of Michele Fortes

Research Interests

Second language reading and literacy development; best practices for preparing preservice and inservice teachers to work with English learners; preservice teachers and the role of reflection in their growth as teachers; preservice teachers and pedagogy that furthers their thinking about issues of diversity; high school reform/restructuring.

Education

Ph.D., Education: Language and Literacy – University of California, Davis – 2001

(530) 752-7334
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BARBARA GOLDMAN

Academic Coordinator Emeritus

The article below was originally published in the Spring 2013 Catalyst

Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: SOEP. 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

Cristina Gonzalez

Professor Emeritus

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(530) 754-7988
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Pauline Holmes

Lecturer Emerita and Teacher Education Emerita

Portrait of Pauline Holmes

Education

Ph.D., Education – University of California Davis

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Anna Kato

Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus

Education

Ed.D., Counseling – Psychology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco – 1993

Research Interests

Classroom management/Discipline; Counseling; In-service and preservice teacher learning; Mental health promotion in schools; School psychology issues; Teacher education research and polic

Activities and Service

Fellow, Bilingual/Mulicultural Education Program, California State University, Sacramento 1975-1977

Member. California Council for the Education of Teachers (CCET) 

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Al Mendle

Retired Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education

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Office hours:  By appointment only

Research Interests

Elementary Education; Mathematics education

Education

M.A., Education – University of California, Davis

(530) 752-8784
ammendle@ucdavis.edu
Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Language assessment and acquisition in bilinguals; Bilingual and second language education; Classroom discourse

Barbara Merino

Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests

Language assessment and acquisition in bilinguals; Bilingual and second language education; Classroom discourse; Elementary education; English learners; Latina/o education issues; Literacy development through science; Teacher action research; Teacher development & performance assessment

Education

Ph.D., Education and Linguistics – Stanford University, Stanford – 1976

Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: LMS. Translational research on education and special education; Academic development for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Peter Mundy

Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor of Education and the MIND Institute of the Department of Psychiatry

Portrait of Peter Mundy

There are seven million exceptional children with special needs in our American school system, such as children with autism spectrum development. They have the right to appropriate and comparable educational opportunities. Truly meeting the needs of these children requires a commitment to integrating advances in educational science, neuroscience, and social policy.

(530) 752-0921
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Sandra Murphy

Professor Emerita

Education

PhD (Language, Literacy & Culture) – UC Berkeley
Master of Arts in Teaching (English) – UC Berkeley

Professional Experience

Educational Consultant on Writing Assessment
Professor – UC Davis School of Education

Activities

Educational Consultant on standards, curriculum alignment, and assessment

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Deb Niemeier

Professor Emeritus

Deb Niemeier is a professor with a joint appointment at the School of Education and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In September 2015, after a positive vote by Senate faculty in the spring, then Chancellor Linda Katehi approved Niemeier¹s joint appointment in the School of Education.

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Rick Pomeroy

Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education Emeritus

Portrait of Rick Pomeroy

Office hours: Wednesdays 3-5 or by appointment

(530) 752-0622
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(Shirley) JoAn Skinner

Retired Faculty

Education

Master’s Degree – Sacramento State University
Bachelor’s Degree – University of Colorado

Professional Experience

Taught all elementary grades (1-8) in various states.
Supervisor of educational program at a private school in Rangoon, Burma.

Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: SOEP. Education Policy and Governance; International education policy and governance; School finance

Thomas Timar

Professor Emeritus

Portrait of Thomas Timar

To paraphrase Dostoevsky, the quality of a society should be measured by the quality of its schools, particularly the quality of its schools educating the most disadvantaged children.

Thomas Timar’s areas of expertise include education finance, policy, and governance. In addition to his faculty responsibilities, he is also director of the UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed) and a member of the steering committee for Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).

(530) 754-6654
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Cary Trexler

Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests

Agricultural Education; Agri-food system literacy; Service-learning; Secondary Education; Science Education; Technology in Science; Technology in teaching and learning

UC Davis School of Education Building, Room 258
(530) 752-2623
cjtrexler@ucdavis.edu
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Dave Wampler

Retired Lecturer/Supervisor of Teacher Education

Education

PhD – University of Utah
Master of Arts – Indiana University
Bachelor of Arts - Indiana University

Faculty Profile EMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Anthropology of consciousness; Bilingual education; Child development; Classroom discourse; Classroom research

Karen Watson Gegeo

Professor Emeritus

Karen Watson Gegeo

Research Interests

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 langu

(510) 527-5076
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George D. Yonge

Professor Emeritus

Education

PhD (Educational Psychology) – University of California, Berkeley (1962)
Master of Arts (Educational Psychology) - University of California, Berkeley (1958)
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) - University of California, Berkeley (1956)

Professional Expertise

Learning; teacher education; phenomenological method; phenomenology of education; the study of education as a regional ontology; philosophical anthropology; “The Pretoria School of Educational Thought;” fundamental-, psycho-, didactic-, socio-, ortho-pedagogics.

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Phil Young

Professor Emeritus

Education

PhD (Educational Administration) 1977 – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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