
Na Mi Bang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Bang’s research interest includes multicultural school counseling, career development of minority populations, and school-family community
collaboration.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Bang’s research interest includes multicultural school counseling, career development of minority populations, and school-family community
collaboration.
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Yoder is interested in issues of equity and educational change in mathematics and language education as they relate to pedagogy, policy, and teacher education.
Assistant Instructor
Taylor is a former classroom teacher whose research interests include cultivating critical consciousness, whiteness, and teacher education. She is passionate for all aspects of justice-oriented pedagogy but is particularly drawn to literacy methods.
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Brown serves as the Director of IUPUI's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Her research interests include faculty learning and development, college student development, and promoting inclusive pedagogies in higher education.
Lecturer
Ms. Croom has spent the past 20 years as a public school teacher in both North Carolina and Illinois. It is her passion to now teach future teachers the skills necessary to be successful in the classroom.
Faculty Coordinator of Field Experience, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Samantha L. Franklin was a K-12 public school educator for 21 years as a teacher of English and Math, and as a School Counselor, in traditional and alternative education settings. She has been a professor at IUPUI, UINDY, and Liberty University.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Gill has been teaching in higher education for over 10 years, the past 3 years as Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Studies and Teacher Education at IUPUI. Her passion is developing curriculum and teaching interns to do the same with authentic learning tasks and critical thinking.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Michelle C.S. Greene, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Urban Teacher Education Department. Her courses focus on
pedagogy and practices to best empower and support culturally and linguistically students and their families.
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor
Dr. Hayes’s research interest includes the use of Critical Race Theory in Education, Historical and Contemporary Issues in Black Education to include the school to prison pipeline, Teaching and Learning in the Latino Community, Whiteness and the Intersections of Sexuality and Race.
Dean, Professor
Dr. Jackson has been a professional educator for over 27 years. Prior to joining the academy, she was an elementary teacher and taught first, second, and third grades. As a teacher educator, she drew upon her own classroom teaching experiences focusing on the complexities of teaching diverse learners and attending to social justice issues pertaining to the marginalization of children in U.S. schools.
Associate Professor
Dr. Kazembe is a poet, educator, and critical Black scholar whose work examines culture, race, history, education, and the arts.
Professor
Dr. Thorius' research is concerned with educational access, participation, and outcomes for students, with particular attention to the ways in which systemic factors, including educational policy and educators practices, converge in classrooms to shape the experiences of underrepresented students, including those identified with disabilities.
Clinical Professor
Dr. Magee has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York. After a postdoctoral position at Eli Lilly & Co, Dr. Magee earned her Indiana teaching license at IUPUI. She is currently a Clinical Professor in Science Education.
Associate Professor
Brendan Maxcy is an Associate Professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy. From 2017 to 2022, he served as Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. He studies leader responses to education reform policies with particular attention to equity effects, leadership distribution, and political dynamics. He served as co-principal investigator for two federally-funded projects, the Great Lakes Equity Center (2011-16) and the Community Self-Empowerment Program (2013-2016). His work is published in Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, Educational Policy, The Peabody Journal of Education, Remedial and Special Education, and Urban Education. He has presented his work in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Scotland, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Medina's professional interests center on urban schools, specifically the damaging effects of poverty, that disadvantage, disenfranchised and dispossess students, their families, and the community.
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Associate Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor in Africana Studies
Dr. Morton is an Associate Professor of Math Education. Her scholarly work focuses on secondary math education with an emphasis on the role of informal STEM learning in fostering equitable and transformative learning experiences for Black girls.
Clinical Professor
As clinical professor in the Educational Leadership Program, Dr. Murphy teaches courses in educational leadership and evaluation. His research interests include school improvement, teacher evaluation, special education, and school effectiveness.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement
Dr. Murtadha is a mother and grandmother. Her PhD is in Educational Leadership from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She has taught in many settings including a preschool, an elementary school, middle school science, undergraduate and graduate classes. She currently teaches in the School of Education’s Urban Leadership program. Murtadha is the editor of Indiana University’s first journal dedicated to community engaged and community based participatory research. Her commitment to issues of art and culture led to the development of IU’s Africana Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.I.). Her research is attentive to African American women committed to social justice educational leadership; and the ethics of community-university engagement.
Associate Professor
David teaches and researches in areas of education law and policy and is an assistant professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy and adjunct professor of law at IUPUI.
Associate Professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy
Thu Sương Nguyễn is an associate professor of Urban Education Leadership & Policy and currently serves as department chair. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her scholarly interests include critical management studies and vulnerable communities.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy in Urban Education
Dr. Jeremy Price focuses on collaborating with students, educators, and communities to plan, facilitate, and evaluate
just and equitable learning environments for each learner, particularly those who represent marginalized identities and
communities.
Associate Professor
Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff is an Associate Professor of Special Education, Urban Teacher Education. She has expertise in bilingual/multicultural special education and applies her skills in working with families of children with disabilities.
Professor
Dr. Jim Scheurich is an anti-racist, community activist scholar committed to addressing the institutional and systemic inequities and injustices in educational and community contexts. His scholarly interests include anti-racism, equity, and inclusion in schools and communities and qualitative research epistemologies and methodologies.
Associate Professor
Dr. Scribner is an Associate Professor and Director of Urban Educational Leadership & Policy Program. She focuses on critical approaches to and analyses of the ethics, culture and politics of urban educational leadership.
Research Project Manager
Mr. Sherman is an educational researcher specializing in qualitative inquiry. His current research focuses on Six Principles Instructional Coaching, particularly as relates to the US Dept. of Ed. NPD grant funded project, Partnering for Radical School Improvement.
Director of Equity Education, Office of Academic Affairs, Associate Professor
Teresa Sosa is an Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education with a focus in literacy education at IUPUI. Sosa has been recently appointed Director of Equity Education in the Office of Academic Affairs (Aug. 1, 2022).
School Counseling Program Coordinator, Professor
Dr. Roberto Gershon Swazo is a professor and coordinator in the school counseling program at Indiana University - Indianapolis with expertise in psycho-bilingual issues related to multilingual clients in schools and communities.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Kara M. Taylor is a public intellectual dedicated to the emancipation/liberation of marginalized communities. She is
a clinical assistant professor with a specialty of literacy in the UTE program. She researches healing spaces created by
literacy.
Professor
Dr. Teemant's research and teaching focus on preparing K12 teachers to work with multilingual learners. Under this umbrella, she has published on innovative program development, urban English as a New Language teacher preparation, and pedagogical coaching.
Department Chair for Urban Education, Professor
Dr. Willey's research focuses on all aspects of mathematics teaching and learning with Latinas/os through the framework of mathematics and language socialization processes, or Mathematics Discourse Communities.