Boston University School of Education - Notable Faculty, Past and Present

Notable Faculty, Past and Present

Maria Estela Brisk, former professor of education at Boston University from 1974 to 1999. She is a leading researcher and teacher educator in bilingualism, bilingual education, literacy development.
Hardin Coleman, current dean of the School of Education at Boston University. His research focus is the development of school counselors, family therapy, supervision, advanced clinical courses, and spirituality in counseling. He has also published numerous articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, The School Counselor, the Psychological Bulletin, and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. His clinical focus is lower-income African American families with a particular interest in adolescents. He is the editor of the recently published Handbook on School Counseling.
Thomas Cottle, current professor of education at Boston University. A sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, he is the author of thirty books and more than five hundred and fifty articles, essays and reviews on topic in psychology, sociology, and adolescent development. He worked under Erik Erikson at Harvard University, and later held a position at The Children’s Defense Fund. In the 1970s and 1980s he was also the host of the syndicated Tom Cottle Show, where he interviewed guests on topics related to psychology. Interviewees included Andy Kaufman and Henry Fonda.
Bruce Fraser, current professor of education at Boston University. He studied under Noam Chomsky at MIT and in a series of papers beginning in 1990, he has set forth a theory of discourse markers, which defines this functional class and distinguishes them from other particles and similar lexical formatives, and is currently writing a book on the sub-class of contrastive discourse markers.
Henry Giroux, former professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
James Paul Gee, former professor of education from 1982–1988 and chair of the Department of Developmental Studies and Counseling. His research focus is in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. and recently he has written about video games and literacy.
Charles Glenn, current professor of education at Boston University and former dean ad interim. From 1970 to 1991 he served as director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education where he oversaw the administration of state funds for magnet schools and desegregation and was responsible for the nation's first state bilingual education mandates.
Roselmina (Lee) Indrisano, current professor of education and past-president of the International Reading Association and the Reading Hall of Fame. Her expertise is in literacy, particularly literacy instruction and assessment.
Mary Catherine O’Connor, current professor of education at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests are in linguistics and applied linguistics. She is currently principal investigator of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct crosslinguistic typological work on the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of determiner phrases.
Jeanne Paratore, current professor of education at Boston University. In 2002, she completed a three-year term as a member of the International Reading Association’s Board of Directors.
Evangeline Harris-Stefanakis, current professor of education at Boston University. She has helped lead major educational reform projects including work with UNESCO, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Annenberg Research and Evaluation Team.
David Whittier, current professor of education at Boston University. His focus is computer-based multimedia, instructional television, and distance education and he serves as a consultant to PBS program developers and educational multimedia companies and is actively involved with other colleges and universities and the Massachusetts Department of Education in advising the commissioner of education and other policy agencies on technology issues for all levels of educators.
Leonard Zaichkowsky, current professor of education and medicine at Boston University. He is a licensed psychologist who specializes in sport and performance psychology and he has consulted with the U. S., Canadian, and Australian Olympic Organizations, the NBA (Boston Celtics), Major League Baseball Players Association, NFL, NHL Players Association and Calgary Flames, and most recently with the Spanish World Cup Soccer Team.