Curricula Vitae in Leadership, Learning Design, & Inquiry

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Christian K Anderson, PhD Professor	Faculty and organizations within higher education	Christian Anderson is assistant professor of higher education.His primary research focus is on the history of higher education and the organization and governance of higher education (particularly the role of faculty). These two areas intersected in his dissertation on the history of the development of faculty senates at research universities. He has done work on comparative higher education, especially on the role of students and faculty in the governance of Latin American universities.
Dr. Fatih Ari Assistant Professor	Programming, Educational games, Effective technology	Dr. Ari earned his Ed.D. in Instructional Technology with a minor in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University. He also received a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Texas Tech University. Prior to his career at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Ari worked as a Programmer/Analyst at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and taught graduate level courses in the Instructional Technology program at Texas Tech University.
Dr. Ismahan Arslan-Ari Associate Professor	Instructional Technology, Special Education (Deafblind)	Dr. Arslan-Ari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies. She received her doctorate (Ed.D.) in Instructional Technology with a minor in Special Education (Deafblind) from Texas Tech University. She also holds a master’s degrees in Special Education. Previously, she worked as a lead instructional designer at the Texas Tech University Independent School District which provides fully online K-12 education to students all around the world.
Dr. Susan C Bon Professor	Education Law & Policy, Ethical Leadership, Disability Rights	Education law, policy, and leadership across the P-20 continuum, special education law (IDEA, ADA, Rehabilitation Act), values and ethics in education leadership, and personnel & employment decisions.
Kathleen Mary Winn Cunningham Assistant Professor	School leadership preparation, Improvement science, Content specific leadership (with special attention to leadership for science)	Kathleen Mary Winn Cunningham is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in educational leadership and policy studies, she served as a postdoctoral research associate for the University Council for Educational Administration at the University of Virginia. Cunningham studies educational leadership, leadership preparation, policy, and improvement science.
Dr. Suzy E Hardie Clinical Associate Professor	School leadership preparation, Educational leadership, Talent management in rural areas	Suzy Hardie, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Program Coordinator of the Master’s and Education Specialist’s programs in Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina. She analyzes effective school leadership in high-needs urban and rural schools. Through research, she knows of the importance of context, so she helps to educate administrative interns to be able to be successful leaders in any school context.
Dr. Toby S Jenkins-Henry Professor		Toby Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Museum of Education. She also serves as Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Graduate School. Her work focuses on the use of culture as a politic of social survival, a tool of social change, and a transformational space within educational settings. She is considered a national expert on cultural inclusion and belonging in higher education.
Jamil Johnson Clinical Assistant Professor	examines the experiences of African-American males through the P-20 educational pipeline, access and participation of historically underrepresented and marginalized students in higher educ., qualitative research methodology focusing on critical race theory	Jamil D. Johnson earned his B.A. in history, M.A., and Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. For six years, he served in a dual role as a higher education administrator responsible for student success initiatives in the first-year seminar program.
Todd Lilly Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. David G Martinez Assistant Professor	intersection of School Finance Policy, Critical Theory/ Critical Race Theory	Davíd G. Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. He has worked extensively in traditionally marginalized, LatinX, and Indigenous communities as an advocate, researcher, and educator. Prior to pursuing his professorship, Davíd was an educational administrator in northern Illinois, and a middle school and high school educator.
Peter L Moyi Dept Chair/Associate Professor	Education, Educational Administration	Peter Moyi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies.. His research is focused on the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to educational inequality. The main areas of focus include: school entry and completion, school leadership, and conflict and emergencies.
Spencer Platt Associate Professor		Dr. Platt's research interests include: Black males in higher education, access to higher education, Critical Race Theory, doctoral education and the professional trajectories of minorities who have earned their profession's highest degree.
Dr. Yingxiao Qian Clinical Assistant Professor		Yingxiao Qian is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, College of Education.
Whitney Roach Assistant Professor
Payal Shah Associate Professor	Qualitative Methods: Ethnographic and Participatory Research	I conduct research at the intersection of education, gender, culture, and society. I am an ethnographer and sociologist of education and have worked principally on the issues of education policy and forms of empowerment amongst low caste adolescent girls in rural India. In my research, I strive to provide insight into the socio-cultural and historical forces that both shape and perpetuate the marginalization of adolescent girls.
Dr. Doyle Stevick Associate Professor	international education, comparative education	Doyle Stevick is Assistant Professor and Director of the Office of International and Comparative Education at the University of South Carolina. His current research involves international teacher exchanges, an area in which South Carolina is a national leader.
Dr. Hengtao Tang Associate Professor	self-regulated learning, STEM education, multimodal learning analytics	Hengtao Tang is an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technologies. His research interests address the intersection of multimodal data analytics, self-regulated learning, and AI in education, specifically using multimodal data analytics to understand how learners regulate their learning and collaborative problem solving in technology-enhanced learning environments and thereby creating AI-driven scaffolds to facilitate learners' disposition, knowledge, skills, and career action outcomes.
Charles (Chas) Thompson Clinical Assistant Professor	minoritized college students’ experiences at U.S. institutions of higher education	Chas Thompson (he/him/his) holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Arkansas. His research is centered around minoritized college students’ experiences at U.S. institutions of higher education, with a particular focus on college students with minoritized sexual and gender identities. He has published works on queer students’ experiences in higher education history, college student fashion activism, and preparing higher education and student affairs professionals.
Henry Tran Associate Professor	Education Finance, Human Resources Management, Quantitative Methodologies	Dr. Tran is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies who studies issues related to education human resources (HR) and finance. He has published numerous articles on the topics, including several with students. He holds two national HR certifications and sits on the board of advisors for the National Education Finance Conference.
Dr. Christina Wai-tze Yao Associate Professor	collaborative study on transnational pressures on teaching and learning in Vietnam, college transition process for international students of Color, graduate students’ international scholar-practitioner development	Christina W. Yao, Ph.D., is a qualitative researcher who primarily studies undergraduate and graduate student engagement and learning in higher education. She operationalizes her research focus through three connected topical areas: international and comparative education, teaching and learning, and graduate education.