Faculty Expertise
Child and Family Studies
- Ian Cameron, Lecturer in Human Development and Family Studies
Expertise: Adolescent development; adult development and aging; thanatology (death studies); family relations. - Sandra Caron, Professor of Family Relationships
Expertise: Sexual decision making; contraceptive use; safer sex; sexual assault; sexuality education; cross-cultural perspectives on human sexuality; peer sexuality education - Renate Klein, Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
Expertise: Psychology, gender and violence - Daniel Puhlman, Assistant Professor of Family Studies
Expertise: Qualitative exploration of family processes; parenting; co-parenting; fatherhood
Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction
- Rebecca Buchanan, Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction
Expertise: Teacher identity; professional development; school reform; literacy and language; qualitative methods and discourse analysis - Vanessa Klein, Assistant Professor of Education
Expertise: Environmental education; science education; STEM; 4-H - John Maddaus, Associate Professor of Education (Emeritus)
Expertise: Social context of education; student diversity; secondary education; student access to post-secondary education; teacher research; pre-service teacher education; rural education; teaching Native American history and culture - Tammy Mills, Assistant Professor of Education
Expertise: Preparation of teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse K-12 student populations; poverty, equity and education; community-based teacher preparation; relationship between professional educators’ knowledge, inquiry and practice; qualitative research methods - Asli Sezen-Barrie, Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction
Expertise: Science education; climate change education; preservice and beginning teacher science teaching - Bryan Silverman, Lecturer in Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction
Expertise: Education and identity
Early Childhood & Early Childhood Education
- Margo Brown, Lecturer in Child Development and Family Relations and Coordinator of the Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center
Expertise: Early childhood and early childhood special education - Julie DellaMattera, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Development
Expertise: Early childhood education; child development; leadership; early education policy; antisocial behaviors; math/numeracy
Educational Leadership
- Richard Ackerman, Professor of Educational Leadership
Expertise: Organizational development; leadership development; school culture; interpersonal dimensions of leadership - Catharine Biddle, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Expertise: Rural communities and school relationships - Ian Mette, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Expertise: School reform and instructional leadership
Higher Education
- Elizabeth Allan, Professor of Higher Education
Expertise: Campus diversity; gender equity in higher education; campus and classroom climates; hazing; policy discourses; feminist theory - Kathleen Gillon, Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Expertise: Access and equity in higher education; geography’s role college access for marginalized students; qualitative explorations of gender, geography and community capital and how these factors influence post-secondary educational opportunity for rural college students - Leah Hakkola, Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Expertise: Diversity discourses in higher education; recruitment and admissions
Human Development & Educational Psychology
- Sid Mitchell, Associate Professor of Education
Expertise: Cognitive processes in attributions; control; expectations; motivation and self-regulation; cyber-bullying; cognition and instruction; scale development and assessment of individual differences
Kinesiology & Physical Education
- Lauren Jacobs, Lecturer in Outdoor Leadership
Expertise: Outdoor education; recess; team sports and games - Robert Lehnhard, Professor of Education
Expertise: Exercise physiology; cardiovascular physiology; metabolic support of exercise and growth - Jennifer McNulty, Lecturer in Kinesiology and Physical Education
Expertise: Health education pedagogy/methodology; health promotion and disease prevention; community health; health profession supervisor - Chris Nightingale, Associate Professor of Physical Education and Athletic Training
Expertise: Athletic training; mentoring; physical education pedagogy - Sherrie Weeks, Athletic Training Program Director (Retired)
Expertise: Electrotherapy; ultrasound; musculoskeletal anatomy; thermotherapies; functional assessments; corrective exercise training
Literacy
- Susan Bennett-Armistead, Associate Professor of Literacy
Expertise: Emergent literacy; early childhood teacher literacy knowledge; early childhood literacy pedagogy; school-family relationships; pre-service teacher training; in-service teacher training - Richard Kent, Professor of Literacy Education (Emeritus)
Expertise: High school writing centers; athlete journals; athletic team notebooks; writing instructions; portfolios; writing in the arts - William Dee Nichols, Professor in Literacy Education
Expertise: Literacy; comprehension; vocabulary; fluency - Mary Rosser, Director of Reading Recovery and Coordinator of Literacy Professional Development Programs
Expertise: Literacy education; curriculum development; literacy intervention and coaching - Jane Wellman-Little, Lecturer in Reading/Literacy
Expertise: K-8 literacy instruction and assessment; children’s literature
Research Methods
- Janet Fairman, Associate Research Professor
Expertise: Education policy; education reform; teacher leadership; district consolidation; research methods - Craig Mason, Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods
Expertise: Developmental epidemiology; informatics; quantitative methods; statistics; birth defects; parenting; ethnic minority youth - Shihfen Tu, Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods
Expertise: Behavioral informatics; data linkage; instrumentation development; applied quantitative methods; developmental epidemiology; public health; developmental disabilities; birth defects; newborn hearing screening
Special Education
- James Artesani, Associate Professor of Special Education
Expertise: Emotional/behavioral disorders; positive behavior intervention and support; Autism Spectrum Disorders; at-risk students; implementation science - Sara Flanagan, Assistant Professor of Special Education
Expertise: Writing literacy in secondary education students with and without high incidence disabilities; written expression; technology in classrooms - Sarah Howorth, Assistant Professor of Special Education
Expertise: Assistive technology and augmented reality in special education; reading comprehensions; positive behavior intervention and supports; employment and transition outcomes for individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities - Diane Jackson, Lecturer in Special Education
Expertise: Adapted instruction; adolescent/adult assessments; standardized test prep; math workshops; study skills training; disability testing; inclusion; learning disabilities; ADHD - Courtney Pacholski, Lecturer in Special Education
Expertise: Positive behavior intervention and support - Deborah Rooks-Ellis, Associate Professor of Special Education and Director of the Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research
Expertise: Autism Spectrum Disorders
STEM Education
- Justin Dimmel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education and Instructional Technology
Expertise: Communication practices used in mathematics education - Elizabeth Hufnagel, Associate Professor of Science Education
Expertise: Emotional expressions in teaching and learning about science; framing of climate change and environmental issues in learning settings - Eric Pandiscio, Associate Professor of Education
Expertise: Geometry; proportional reasoning
