The School of Educational Studies (SES) is home to renowned faculty conducting high-quality education and policy research. SES faculty-scholars provide students individualized attention and professional mentorship, collaborating with and guiding them across the graduate school experience.
Core Faculty
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Claudia Bermúdez
Clinical Assistant Professor
Preliminary Program Coordinator
Department of Teacher EducationResearch Interests
Bermúdez's research and teaching interests explore the significance of healthy classroom ecologies and the tension between critical social justice teaching and subtractive schooling. Her work spans PK-12 to higher education, with an emphasis on antiracist, antibias and culturally sustaining pedagogies; the intersection of class/race in education; the value of testimonios y pláticas in qualitative research; linguistic justice and translanguaging; and critically socially just leadership.
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Deborah Faye Carter
Associate Professor of Higher Education
Research Interests
Higher education; transition to college; college student outcomes; access to college; race in education; mentoring, equity, and diverse learning environments in STEM
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DeLacy Ganley
Dean, School of Educational Studies
Professor of EducationResearch Interests
Culturally relevant education; resiliency and achievement of marginalized populations; intersection of families, community, and school; language acquisition; social capital theory; systems theory
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Gwen Garrison
Clinical Professor of Education
Director of Educational Evaluation and Data Analysis
Research Interests
Organizational effectiveness; diversity & inclusion; research & evaluation process; data systems; data management; data visualization and storytelling
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Frances Marie Gipson
Clinical Professor of Education
Director, Urban Leadership ProgramResearch Interests
Urban schooling; distributed leadership; social-emotional learning; culturally relevant and linguistically responsive education; systems theory; learning and achievement; talent and leadership development; P-20 school policy
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June K. Hilton
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
STEM Education, Equity Issues in Science and Mathematics, Effective Use of Instructional Technology, Teacher Preparation
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Tom Luschei
Professor of Education
Research Interests
International and Comparative Education; Economics of Education; Teacher Quality, Teacher Policy, and Teacher Distribution; Education Policy across the Americas
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Dina C. Maramba
Professor of Education
Research Interests
Equity and diversity issues in higher education; theory and practice in student affairs; college student development; access and retention; first-generation college students; Asian American and Pacific Islander populations; minority serving institutions
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Susan J. Paik
Professor of Education
Research Interests
Educational productivity; talent and leader development; giftedness and creativity; learning and achievement; psychosocial and environmental factors; urban and international studies; underserved students; Asian Americans and education; family-school-community partnerships; research methods, design, and evaluation
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Linda Perkins
University Professor
Director, Applied Gender StudiesResearch Interests
Women and African-American higher education, history and contemporary issues on women in higher education, especially Black women, global gender issues, history of talent identification programs.
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Emilie Reagan
Associate Professor of Education
Research Interests
Social justice and equity-oriented teacher education policy and practice; context-specific teacher preparation; teacher residency programs; assessment; accountability; quantitative methods; mixed methods
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Guan K. Saw
Associate Professor, Joseph B. Platt Chair in Management of Technology
Research Interests
Educational inequality; STEM education and workforce; rural education; college access and success; social capital; mentorship; teacher victimization; health disparities; research methodology
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Samara Suafo’a
Clinical Assistant Professor
Interim Director of the Department of Teacher EducationResearch Interests
Indigenous research methodologies; the Indigenous art of storytelling as a high-impact practice in K-16 classrooms; Intersectionality of Dis/ability Research and Critical Social Justice; Role of Relationships as a Foundation for Creating Positive Classroom and School Ecologies; the intersectionality of race and athletics w/in K-16 systems; College Choice for historically minoritized communities; Impact of Colonization on the Educational Trajectory of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders (NHPIs); Critical Social Justice in K-16 Education; Anti Racist/Anti Bias Pedagogy in K-16 classrooms
Emerit Faculty
Extended Faculty
Extended Faculty are faculty at the other Claremont Colleges who have professional affiliation with the School of Educational Studies. They may teach classes and/or work with students on research. They can oversee qualifying examinations and chair doctoral dissertations when appropriate and with approval.
Suyapa Portillo Villeda
Pitzer College
Department
Chicana/o-Latina/o Transnational Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty are faculty or researchers from other institutions or organizations who have professional affiliation with the School of Educational Studies. They may teach classes and/or work with students on research. Additionally, they can work with students on their MA thesis projects, doctoral qualifying examinations, and/or doctoral dissertations when appropriate and with approval.
Brent Drake
Senior Research Fellow
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Admissions Representatives
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Frank Frias
Director of Admissions & Recruitment
T: 909-607-3240
Programs
Transdisciplinary Studies, Educational Studies
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Iveth Cordon
Assistant Director of Admissions
T: 909-607-0201
Programs
Teacher Education