After teaching middle school math for ten years, I decided to
pursue a PhD to get a fresh perspective on the issues I
observed every day in my classroom and thought that maybe I
could help develop remedies that would help other teachers, as
well.
Faculty ProfileEMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Educational Equity; English Language Arts Education; Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education; Minority/Underrepresented Students
Steven Athanases is a Professor in the School of Education at UC
Davis. He researches issues of cultural and linguistic
diversity and educational equity in teaching, adolescent
learning, and teacher education, with a focus on literacy and
English language arts. As a high school English teacher in the
Chicago area, he received several awards for outstanding teaching
of English, with a focus on writing, and drew on his disciplinary
roots in Performance Studies and Communications to stage annual
performance showcases of original student compositions.
Cati V. de los Ríos is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Education. She has taught in California and Massachusetts
public schools. Cati’s research explores the intersections
of adolescent bi/multilingual literacies, translanguaging,
ethnic studies, and teacher education. Her scholarship
draws from ethnographic and participatory methodologies and is
informed by ethnic studies frameworks and sociocultural,
critical, and translingual orientations of language and
literacy.
Margarita Jimenez-Silva is an associate professor and director of
teacher education at the School of Education in University of
California, Davis. Her research focuses on preparing and
supporting teachers to work with culturally and linguistically
diverse learners, especially in addressing emergent bilinguals’
linguistic and academic content development. More specifically,
her research strands include teacher education pedagogy and
curriculum, educational policy, and family/community engagement.
Faculty ProfileEMPHASIS AREA: SCI/AG. Science Education, Groupwork, Race and Schooling, Social Emotional Intelligence, Social Justice Education, Literacy in Science
Alexis Patterson, Ph.D., joined the School of Education in July
2015 as an Assistant Professor in science education. She is
currently a CAMPOS Faculty
Scholar and is excited to work with her cohort to develop a
research center that focuses on increasing the participation of
women of color in STEM related fields.
Nicole Sparapani is an assistant professor in the School of
Education and faculty member at the UC Davis MIND Institute. Her
research interests center around the development and evaluation
of effective educational practices for students with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Dr. Sparapani practiced as a certified
speech-language pathologist on an interdisciplinary team serving
preschool children with ASD for several years before pursuing her
Ph.D. in Communication Science and Disorders at Florida State
University and postdoctoral training at Arizona State University.
Agricultural Education; Agri-food system literacy;
Service-learning; Secondary Education; Science Education;
Technology in Science; Technology in teaching and learning
Maisha T. Winn’s research spans a wide variety of understudied
settings including her earlier work on the literate practices
extant in bookstores and community organizations in the African
American community to her most recent work in settings where
adolescent girls are incarcerated.
