Department Chair

Karen Pezzetti, Associate Teaching Professor, Acting Department Chair

Karen Pezzetti

Associate Teaching Professor, Acting Department Chair

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Secondary English Classrooms • Social Foundations in Teacher Education • Multicultural and International Children’s and Young Adult Literature • Policies and Practice in Urban Education • Teaching and Learning for Social Justice • Youth Participatory Action Research


Faculty

Isaac  Gottesman, Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education

Isaac  Gottesman

Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education

(Sabbatical Fall 2025)

History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present • Critical Theories of Education • History of Education as an Academic Field of Study


Shakita Thomas Kpetay, Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies

Shakita Thomas Kpetay

Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies

Black Intellectual Thought • Culture Power and Education • Education Policy • Oral History • Critical Ethnography



Staff

Anna Scanlon

Academic Department Assistant