Curricula Vitae in Teacher Education

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Eurydice Bauer Professor		Eurydice Bauer, Ph.D.'s educational background - University of Iowa, Bachelor of Science (Education with an endorsement Early Childhood), 1986. University of Iowa, Master of Arts (Education, Major: Developmental Reading [K–8]), 1990. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 1996.
Dr. Angela Baum Professor	early childhood education	She is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. Her expertise lies in the areas of early childhood teacher preparation and leadership development within the child care work force. She is actively engaged with the South Carolina Department of Social Services in several projects focused on improving the quality of child care in the state of South Carolina
Dr. Yasha Jones Becton Clinical Associate Professor	multicultural education and student achievement, how issues of social class, culture, and race intersect with student achievement	Yasha Becton’s areas of concentration include multicultural education and student achievement, particularly as it relates to classroom instruction, curriculum design, professional development, and parental involvement. Additional interests include how issues of social class, culture, and race intersect with the aforementioned areas. Becton has more than 15 years of experience serving as a high school teacher and administrator within the South Carolina public school systems.
Dr. Gloria Boutte Professor	African American students/language; Critical Literacy;, African Diaspora Literacy, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte is a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. She has presented widely on diversity and equity issues and enjoys working with teachers and schools. She is also the Founder and Executive Director for the Center for the Education and Equity of African American students (CEEAAS) in Columbia, South Carolina.
Dr. Fenice B. Boyd Department Chair/Professor		Fenice Boyd is Chair and Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education (ITE), in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. Her scholarship, teaching, and service centers on diversity- writ large-as related to students' ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, academic abilities and potentials, instructional approaches and curriculum. Prof. Boyd has published three co-authored and two co-edited books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Eliza G Braden Associate Professor	Family Literacy, Social Justice and Education, Digital Literacies.	Dr. Braden's major fields of interest and research include critical language practices of culturally and linguistically diverse young children, in and out of school literacy practices, family literacy, social justice and education, and digital literacies.
Dr. G. Nathan Carnes Associate Professor	Science Education, Pedagogy	Dr. Nate Carnes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education. His research interests include inquiry teaching and learning issues, use of qualitative research packages (NU*DIST and NVIVO), perceptions on science and university teaching, behavior management strategies (particularly in middle level classrooms), and application of research discourses.
Paul Chaplin Clinical Instructor		Paul Chaplin is a clinical senior instructor in the Elementary Education Program. When working with future teachers, he emphasizes the importance of using physical knowledge to support young learners gaining a greater understanding of math concepts. Teaching candidates under his guidance know the importance of the student/teacher relationship in building a viable learning community.
Catherine F Compton-Lilly Professor	follow children from immigrant families from primary school through high school	Catherine Compton-Lilly engages in longitudinal research projects that last over long periods of time.  Her interests include examining how time operates as a contextual factor in children’s lives as they progress through school and construct their identities as students and readers.  In an ongoing study, now in its ninth year, Compton-Lilly is working with a team of graduate students to follow children from immigrant families from primary school through high school.
Dr. Daniella Ann Cook, PhD Associate Professor		Her research concentrates on understanding how class, race and power affect the everyday schooling lives of students, teachers and communities traditionally under-served by public education across diverse contexts. Recently, she conducted an ethnographic study of black educators in New Orleans to explore urban school reform narratives with an explicit focus on their effects on black communities during the single largest displacement of African American educators since desegregation.
Matthew Cunningham Clinical Assistant Professor
Ms. Elizabeth Rose Currin, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor		Elizabeth Currin is a faculty member in the curriculum studies concentration of the online Ed.D. in Educational Practice and Innovation. She primarily teaches courses on action research and serves as a liaison within the Professional Development Schools Network. Her prior experience as a high school English teacher influences her scholarly interest in stories by and about teachers, encompassing practitioner research, the history of education, and representations of schools in popular culture.
Jeffrey Carlyle Eargle Clinical Assistant Professor	teacher leadership, specifically among social studies teachers	Jeff Eargle is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Secondary Humanities Education. At the University of South Carolina, Eargle teaches practicum-based courses related to teacher development and community engagement and supervises pre-service teachers in the field placements. In addition to an interested in social studies methods and curriculum, he studies teacher leadership. He is interested in how female social studies leaders lead within masculine contexts.
Ashley Gess Clinical Assistant Professor		Ashley J. Gess, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Ed.D. STEM in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Dr. Kristin E Harbour Associate Professor	Development and implementation of interventions and innovative instructional practices, Support systems general and special education teachers’ mathematics content knowledge, Innovative pre-service teacher preparation that uses research-based practices	Kristin Harbour, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Elementary Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Thomas E Hodges Dean		Dr. Hodges' research centers on how teachers view their roles as teachers of mathematics in relation to local and global expectations of mathematics instruction. Furthermore, he conducts research on the development of beliefs, attitudes, and dispositions towards mathematics teaching and learning among pre-service elementary teachers, which can then inform the design and assessment of mathematical experiences for pre-service teachers.
Dr. Rhonda Jeffries Professor	Cultural foundations, Urban education	Dr. Jeffries currently teaches in the areas of curriculum and diversity in education, staff development and qualitative research methods. Dr. Rhonda Jeffries' research interests include understanding the educational experiences of marginalized people, and her work often examines educational phenomena through a performance theory lens.
Dr. Elif Karsli Calamak, PhD Associate Professor	supporting teachers of Syrian refugee children in public schools in Turkey, collaborating with refugee families with a focus on mathematics education	Elif Karsli-Calamak is an assistant professor in early mathematics education at the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education. She began her teaching career in a public kindergarten in Turkey. Later as a Fulbright scholar, she received her doctorate in Early Childhood Education from the University of Georgia. Her doctoral studies focused on children’s embodied mathematical practices in and out of school contexts and family perspectives on early mathematics education.
James David Kirylo Professor		Dr. Kirylo earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from University of New Orleans. He earned a M.Ed. in Educational Administration from University of New Orleans. He earned a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from University of New Orleans. He also earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from Weber State University.
Dr. Julia Maria Lopez-Robertson Professor	education	Her research focuses on the intersections among language, race, ethnicity, and culture as they relate to the teaching and learning of English Language Learners and their families and in preparing teachers for diverse classrooms. Her agenda is built on a commitment to working with children, families, teachers in public schools, universities, and communities for the purpose of advancing understandings about emerging bilingual/multilingual students and their families.
Dr. Christine Rene Lotter Professor	inquiry science teaching, teacher beliefs, professional development of 6-12 teachers	Dr. Lotter's research interests revolve around the issue of improving secondary teacher education through reform-based teaching strategies as identified in the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). She is specifically interested in teachers' use of inquiry teaching techniques as a way to improve students' understanding of both the nature of science and science content.
Dr. Christie Lynn Martin Associate Professor		During her three years at UNCC, she was involved in two large Math and Science Partnership Grants (MSP). The main focus of these grants was using standards based curriculum and formative assessments in elementary mathematics. Her research has centered on the evaluation of these grants, using writing strategies in mathematics, and comparing education practices between the United States and China.
Terrance Michael Mcadoo Clinical Assistant Professor		Terrance M. McAdoo began his professional work experience as a Transportation Consultant for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, before transitioning into the field of education. As an educator, Terrance has worked as a teacher assistant (working with Autistic children), a professional licensed business teacher (high school), a student affairs counselor, and a collegiate instructor. It didn’t take long for him to realize that not only was he gifted to teach but also he enjoyed it.
Dr. Bridget T Miller Associate Professor	STEM classroom	Dr. Miller's research investigates the integration of commercial technologies such as tablet computers and their use in the STEM classroom to support instructional objectives in authentic and meaningful ways. Her recent studies focused on the use of electronic notebooks on iPads for students with cognitive disabilities to access, communicate, and be assessed in STEM curriculum.
Dr. Becky Lynn Morgan Clinical Assistant Professor		Rebecca Lynn Morgan, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Curriculum Studies in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Meir Muller Associate Professor	Constructivist theory and pedagogy, Teacher preparation and development, Research comparing early childhood issues in the Israeli and American society	Meir Muller has earned rabbinical ordination as well as a doctorate in philosophy in the area of early childhood education from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Muller holds the position of clinical assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina and serves as the principal of the Columbia Jewish Day School.
Dr. Victoria Oglan Clinical Associate Professor	Education	Her areas of expertise are adolescent literacy, secondary English methodology, disciplinary literacy. Oglan's research interests include qualitative methodology and mixed methods.
Jenny Powell Clinical Instructor		Jenny Powell earned an M.Ed. in Language and Literacy from the University of South Carolina in 2014. Prior to earning her Master's degree, she attended Newberry College where she earned a B.S. in Elementary Education with add-ons in Early Childhood Education and Middle Level ELA. Jenny Powell began her career as an educator in the rural town of Saluda, SC in 2011. While at Saluda Middle School, she taught sixth grade ELA. In later years, she transferred to Lexington School District One.
Elizabeth Rollins Clinical Assistant Professor		Elizabeth Rollins, Ed.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Elementary Education and MAT Coordinator for Elementary Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Dr. George Roy Professor		Dr. Roy received his Ph.D. in Education, with an emphasis in Mathematics Education, from UCF. During his doctoral program, his primary area of research focused on preservice teachers'™ development of mathematical content knowledge. Currently, Dr. Roy teaches mathematics methods courses as part of Middle Level Education program in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education. His current research efforts include examining uses of dynamic technology in middle school math.
Dr. Lenny L Sanchez Associate Professor	examining how literacy teaching and learning can promote awareness of social issues, student empowerment, teacher and students’ critical literacy practices	Lenny Sánchez is an Assistant Professor in Language and Literacy Education in the College of Education at University of South Carolina. Lenny Sánchez earned his Ph.D. in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from Indiana University – Bloomington, his M.S. in Effective Teaching and Leadership from Butler University, and his B.A. in Elementary Education from Anderson University.
Susan Schramm-Pate Associate Professor	Women's Studies, Historiography, Cultural Studies	Within the Department of Instruction & Teacher Education (ITE) Dr. Schramm-Pate teaches in the program area of Curriculum & Instruction. She also serves as an affiliate faculty member for the Women's Studies Program (WOST). Schramm-Pate's teaching concentration and research interests in the area of curriculum studies revolve around women's studies, historiography, cultural studies, and integrated curriculum.
Dr. Lucy K. Spence, PhD Professor	Lanaguage acquisition, Writing instruction, Reading instruction	Lucy K. Spence is a Professor of Language and Literacy. Her interests include exploring the intersections of culture and language. She has published articles on Spanish and Japanese children's writing development. With former doctoral student, Ayan Mitra she has recently published a monograph, Educational Neuroscience for Literacy Teachers. She teaches graduate courses in the Language & Literacy program area in the College of Education, University of South Carolina.
Jennifer Strickland-Poole Clinical Instructor		Jennifer Strickland-Poole is a Clinical Instructor, Early Childhood Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Mary Styslinger Professor	Adolescent Literacy	Mary E. Styslinger is an Associate Professor of English education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. Director of the Midlands Writing Project, she is the author of book chapters encouraging teacher inquiry/artistry and journal articles regarding teacher research. Her current studies explore the play of feminist theory and its relation to curriculum and practice in English education.
Suha R Tamim Clinical Associate Professor	Instructional design and technology, Teaching with web tools, Interactive learning environments	Instructional design and technology, ehealth and mhealth education interventions, teaching with web tools, interactive learning environments, project based learning, health education strategies.
Dr. Stephen Ludwig Thompson Professor		Stephen Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education. He is the Principal Investigator on the Diverse Pathways in Teacher Preparation Project. The goal of this project is to create technical to 4-year college teacher certification pathways across the state.
Dr. Kenneth E. Vogler Associate Professor	Assessment and Educational Policy, Social Studies Education	Kenneth E. Vogler's research includes the Assessment and Educational Policy- more specifically, the intersection of state curriculum and assessment policies and teachers’ instructional practices- and Social Studies Education.
Dr. Yang Wang Associate Professor	Reading comprehension, English language learning, Reading miscue analysis	Yang Wang joined the Language and Literacy faculty at the University of South Carolina in August of 2014. She teaches three different courses to graduate students in M.Ed. program of Language and Literacy. These courses include: Reading Assessment, Teaching Reading through Children’s Literature, and Content Area Reading and Writing.
Dr. Toni Williams Associate Professor		Assessing student learning and creating meaningful authentic learning for students of all ethnicities is Dr. Williams’ priority in teaching. Her research interests include life histories of middle school teachers and literate lives of African American boys. Moreover she is interested in issues of social justice and diversity in education.
Dr. Kamania Jamila Wynter-hoyte Associate Professor	Education	Kamania Wynter-Hoyte is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education.
Dr. Jan Yow Professor	mathematics education	Before joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina-Columbia, Dr. Yow earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr.Yow is a former secondary mathematics teacher and current National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent and Young Adulthood Mathematics. Her research interest include mathematics education, teacher education and teacher leadership.