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Nicole Barry (McDaid)
Assistant Professor
Rebecca Alber
TEP Faculty Advisor
Marvin C. Alkin
Professor Emeritus
Walter Allen
Distinguished Professor, Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education
Melissa Sachi Arias
TEP Faculty Advisor
Alexander (Sandy) Astin
(1932 - 2022)
Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus
Ron Avi Astor
Professor of Social Welfare
Alison Louise Bailey
Professor
Eva Baker
Distinguished Research Professor
Sarah Bang
Education Lecturer; Executive Director, UCLA California Institute on Law, Neuroscience & Education
Marcia J. Bates
Professor Emerita
Anne Blackstock-Bernstein
Lecturer
Jean-François Blanchette
Associate Professor
Christine L. Borgman
Distinguished Research Professor
Li Cai
Professor
Michelle Caswell
Professor
Mitchell Chang
Interim Vice Provost of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Professor
Christina A. Christie
Wasserman Dean, School of Education & Information Studies; Professor
Clara Chu
Professor Emerita
Sol Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Arthur Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Eddie R. Cole
Professor
Robert Cooper
Professor
Thuy Vo Dang
Assistant Professor
Jaye Darby
TEP Faculty Advisor
Richard Desjardins
Professor
Jason Nunzio Dorio
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs for Community Engagement
Aimée Dorr
Professor Emerita
Johanna Drucker
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita
Diane Durkin
Adjunct Professor
Kevin Eagan
Associate Professor
Frederick Erickson
Professor Emeritus
Norma Feshbach
Professor Emerita
Annamarie Francois
Associate Dean of Public Engagement
Megan Franke
Professor
Todd Franke
Interim Chair of the Department of Information Studies
Jonathan Furner
Professor
Patricia Gandara
Research Professor
David G. Garcia
Associate Professor
Inmaculada Ma García-Sánchez
Professor
Anne J. Gilliland
Professor
Louis Gomez
Professor
Kim Gomez
Professor
Rebecca Gotlieb
Assistant Researcher
Sandra Graham
Distinguished Professor
Jennie Grammer
Associate Professor of Education
Faculty Director, UC/CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity and Learning
Rachel Green
TEP Faculty Advisor
Lorena Guillén
Assistant Professor
Kris Gutiérrez
Professor Emerita
Mark Hansen
Associate Adjunct Professor
Sandra Harding
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita
Jessica C. Harris
Associate Professor
Robert Hayes
(1926 - 2022)
Professor Emeritus
Charles Healy
Professor Emeritus
Tyrone Howard
Professor
Carollee Howes
Research Professor
Sylvia Hurtado
Professor, Higher Education and Organization Change
Jo Ann Isken
PLI Lecturer/Field Supervisor
Chris Jadallah
Assistant Professor
Ozan Jaquette
Associate Professor
Karen McClafferty Jarsky
Education Faculty
Minjeong Jeon
Professor
Connie Kasari
Distinguished Professor
Douglas Kellner
Distinguished Research Professor
Christopher Kelty
Professor
Sara Kersey
TEP Faculty Advisor
Lynn Kim-John
Director
Marilyn Kourilsky
Professor Emerita
Cindy Kratzer
ELP Lecturer
Sheila Lane
TEP Faculty Advisor
Georgia Lazo
Principal, UCLA Lab School
Gregory Leazer
Associate Professor
Darlene Lee
TEP Faculty Advisor
Kathleen J. Lehman
Assistant Academic Researcher; Associate Director, Momentum
Leah Lievrouw
Research Professor Emerita
Dee Dee Lonon
PLI Lecturer/Field Supervisor
Eduardo Lopez
TEP Faculty Advisor
Catherine Lord
Distinguished Professor
Beverly Lynch
Research Professor
Mary Niles Maack
Professor Emerita
Reynaldo Macias
Professor
Nicole Mancevice
Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Jane Margolis
Senior Researcher
Ananda M. Marin
Associate Professor
Anna Markowitz
Assistant Professor
Jose-Felipe Martinez
Professor
Teresa L. McCarty
Distinguished Professor and George F. Kneller Chair of Education and Anthropology
Patricia McDonough
Research Professor Emerita
Peter McLaren
Professor Emeritus
John McNeil
(1919 - 2021)
Professor Emeritus
Luiz Mendes
IS Lecturer
Rashmita Mistry
Vice Chair, Undergraduate Education; Professor
Robert D. Montoya
Associate Professor
Bengt Muthen
Professor Emeritus
Imelda Nava-Landeros
TEP Faculty Advisor
Cindy Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Safiya Umoja Noble
David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies
Jeannie Oakes
Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity
Edith Mukudi Omwami
Associate Professor
Tonikiaa Orange
Director, Principal Leadership Institute; Director, Culture and Equity Project
Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Faulstich Orellana)
Professor
Gary Orfield
Distinguished Research Professor
Susan Oswald
TEP Field Supervisor
Nancy Parachini
Executive Director, School Leadership Initiatives & International Programs
Jaime Park
UCLA Teacher Education Program Faculty
Ellen Pearlstein
Professor
Faye Peitzman
Adjunct Professor
Miriam Posner
Assistant Professor
Jody Priselac
Associate Dean for Community Programs
Bill Purdy
Education Lecturer
Karen Hunter Quartz
Adjunct Professor; Director, UCLA Center for Community Schooling
Federica Raia
Associate Professor
Noopur Raval
Assistant Professor
Laura V. Rhinehart
Assistant Researcher
John Richardson
Professor Emeritus
Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
Chair, Department of Education; Professor
Sarah Roberts
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
John Rogers
Professor
Kristen Rohanna
Associate Adjunct Professor
Mike Rose
(1944 - 2021)
Research Professor
Val Rust
Professor Emeritus
Theodore Ruiz Sagun
Resident Faculty Advisor & Director of Mathematics Instruction and Learning
William Sandoval
Professor Emeritus
Lucrecia Santibañez
Professor
Linda J. Sax
Professor
Brian E. C. Schottlaender
Director, Senior Fellows Program
Michael Seltzer
Research Professor Emeritus
Jeff Share
Lecturer
Christine Shen
Education Lecturer; UCLA Community Schools Director
Daniel Solorzano
Professor
Deborah E. Southern
UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
Ramesh Srinivasan
Professor
Ilene Straus
Lecturer
Eileen Strempel
Inaugural Dean, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; Professor of Music; Professor of Education, School of Education & Information Studies
Tonia Sutherland
Assistant Professor
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Professor (Leave of Absence)
Elaine Svenonius
Professor Emerita
Robert Teranishi
Professor
Glory Tobiason
Clinical Faculty
Carlos Alberto Torres
Distinguished Professor
Concepcion Valadez
Research Professor
Shawn VanCour
Associate Professor
Virginia Walter
Professor Emerita
Jia Wang
Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Scientist
Noreen Webb
Vice Chair, Department of Education; Professor
Christopher Wegemer
Postdoctoral Researcher
Wellford (Buzz) Wilms
Professor Emeritus
Maryanne Wolf
Professor-in-Residence
Jeffrey Wood
Professor
HyeJin Tina Yeo
Postdoctoral Scholar
Mitsue Yokota
Academic Director
Alison Yoshimoto-Towery
Executive Director, UC/CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning