Faculty in Urban Education

Program Faculty

William W. Cutler III, Ph.D. Professor of History and Educational Policy Studies. History of American education; American urban history (especially material culture); oral history; family history; course portfolios and the peer review of teaching.

Mike Dorn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urban Education. Coordinator of Disability Studies, Institute on Disabilities. Urban social and medical geography; interdisciplinary social theory; international disability studies; cultural geographies of American medicine and public health.

Billie Gastic, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Urban Education. Risk and resilience; educational policy; access and equity; education of Latina/os in U.S; quantitative research methods; social network analysis.

Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Urban Education, Anthropology of education; youth culture; hip-hop studies; African American literacies; public and counter-public pedagogy; qualitative inquiry; queer theory.

Erin McNamara Horvat, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Urban Education, Coordinator, Urban Education Program. Sociology of education; access and equity; race and class and education; African American students; urban schools; the achievement gap.

Will J. Jordan, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Urban Education. Urban context of schooling; sociology of education; educational reform policy; high school and postsecondary collaborations; evaluation of educational interventions.

Novella Z. Keith, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Urban Education. School-community partnerships; service learning in urban settings; participation/democratic theory in urban school reform; education and development in Third World countries

Kathleen M. Shaw, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Urban Education, Chair, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Educational policy; urban education; systems access and equity; social mobility; community colleges.

Affiliated Faculty by Department

Nathaniel Norment, Jr., Ph.D.  African American Studies.

Sonja Peterson-Lewis, Ph.D.  African American Studies.

Judith Goode, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology.

Billy Yalowitz, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Art Education.

Jayminn Sanford-DeShields, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Curriculum, Instruction and Technology in Education.

Frank Sullivan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology in Education.

M. Kay Harris, A.M. Associate Professor of Criminal Justice.

James Earl Davis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Educational Administration.

Joan Poliner Shapiro, Ed.D. Professor of Educational Administration.

David Bartelt, Ph.D.  Professor of Geography and Urban Studies.

Melissa Gilbert, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies.

Gerald Stahler, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies.

Anne B. Shlay, Ph.D. Professor of Geography and Urban Studies.

Barbara Ferman, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science, Director, University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia.

Joseph C. Ducette, Ph.D. Professor of Educational Psychology, Psychological Studies in Education.

Joseph P. Folger, Ph.D. Professor of Adult and Organizational Development,
Psychological Studies in Education.

Trevor Sewell, Ph.D. Professor of School Psychology, Psychological Studies in Education.

Rebecca T. Alpert, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s Studies.

Thaddeus P. Mathis, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work.

Kimberly Goyette, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Sherri L. Grasmuck, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology.

Shanyang Zhao, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology.