Faculty Experts
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Heidi Andrade
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology
Expert in the following: Classroom assessment; including rubrics; formative assessment; performance assessment; self-assessment; self-regulated learning
Campus phone: (518) 437-4422
Campus email: handrade@albany.edu
Joseph Burke
University at Albany
Senior Fellow
Department: Rockefeller Institute of Government
Expert in the following:
Education; higher education
Campus phone: (518) 443-5835
Campus email: jburke@albany.edu
Kristin Christodulu
College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Psychology
Expert in the following: Autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, challenging behavior, positive behavior support, sleep disturbances
Campus phone: (518) 442-5132
Campus email: kvchristodulu@albany.edu
Anthony Cresswell
University at Albany
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Department: Educational Administration and Policy Studies
Associate Professor
Expert in the following:
Organizational studies; research methods; the role of information in organizational action and innovation
Campus phone: (518) 442-3766
Campus email: acresswell@albany.edu
Lucy Dadayan
University at Albany
Department: Rockefeller Institute of Government
Expert in the following:
fiscal health/policies of states; k-12 education system in New York; workforce investment
Campus phone: (518) 443-5828
Campus email: ldadayan@albany.edu
Thomas Gais
University at Albany
Director
Department: Rockefeller Institute of Government
Expert in the following:
Education; Federalism; government reform; higher education; social service spending; welfare reform
Campus phone: (518) 443-5238
Campus email: tgais@albany.edu
Virginia Goatley
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Reading
Expert in the following: Literacy instruction; literacy/social studies; connections; Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC)
Campus phone: (518) 442-5104
Campus email: vgoatley@albany.edu
Abbe Herzig
School of Education
Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Women in science; women in mathematics; minorities in science; people of color in science; mathematics education; diversity equity in education; postgraduate education; statistics in the media; statistical literacy
Campus phone: (518) 442-5032
Campus email: aherzig@albany.edu
Kenneth Howey
University at Albany
Senior Fellow
Department: Rockefeller Institute of Government
Expert in the following:
Urban teacher education and school renewal; p-16 partnerships
Campus phone: (518) 443-5922
Campus email: khowey@albany.edu
Kevin Kinser
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational Administration and Policy Studies
Expert in the following: For-profit (proprietary) higher education; post-secondary accreditation policy
Campus phone: (518) 442-5092
Campus email: kkinser@albany.edu
Judith Langer
School of Education
Distinguished Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Co-Director: Center on English Learning and Achievement
Director: Albany Institute for Research in Education
Expert in the following: Student learning; literacy; reading; writing; instruction; literature; English; testing; school success
Campus phone: (518) 442-5029
Campus email: jlanger@albany.edu
Daniel Levy
School of Education
Distinguished Professor
Department: Educational Administration and Policy Studies
Expert in the following:
International higher education; higher education policy and politics; private higher education; Latin American & Mexican politics
Campus phone: (518) 442-5177
Campus email: dlevy@albany.edu
Carla Meskill
School of Education
Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Language of teaching and learning with technology; distance/online education; computer-assisted language learning (CALL); second language and bilingual education; media literacy; electronic literacy.
Campus phone: (518) 442-5007
Campus email: cmeskill@albany.edu
David Miller
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology
Expert in the following: School psychology; developmental psychopathology; behavioral interventions; consultation and prevention, and cognitive-behavior therapy for children and adolescents
Campus phone: (518) 442-5038
Campus email: dmiller@albany.edu
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Peter Shea
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Department: Associate Professor
Department: Informatics
Expert in the following:
higher education; online learning; k-12 education
Campus phone: (518) 442-4009
Campus email: pshea@albany.edu
Joette Stefl-Mabry
College of Computing and Information
Associate Professor
Department: Information Studies
Expert in the following: Education technology; problem-based learning (PBL); instructional technologies; assessment and evaluation
Campus phone: (518) 442-5120
Campus email: jstefl-mabry@albany.edu
Carol Stenger
Sexuality Counselor
Department: University Counseling Center
Expert in the following: Sexuality; sexual health; sex education; European approaches to sex education; AIDS/HIV; sexually transmitted diseases and infections; adolescent sexuality; Internet pornography
Campus phone: (518) 442-5896
Campus email: cstenger@albany.edu
Marcia Sutherland
Department: Africana Studies
Department: Psychology
Expert in the following: Social and psychological development of black children, inclusiveness of education, transracial adoption, HIV/AIDS and people of African descent, enslavement and colonial experiences of people of African descent, black studies, mock jury trials, nonverbal behavior of people of African descent
Campus phone: (518) 442-4727
Campus email: msutherland@albany.edu
Kristen Wilcox
School of Education
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Second language acquisition; foreign language acquisition; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); multicultural education; diversity in education.
Campus phone: (518) 442-9085
Campus email: kwilcox1@albany.edu
Jianwei Zhang
School of Education
Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Technology-supported innovations in learning; knowledge-creating communities
Campus phone: (518) 442-4007
Campus email: jzhang1@albany.edu
