Assistant Professor
Dr. Bang’s research interest includes multicultural school counseling, career development of minority populations, and school-family community collaboration.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
Dr. Sara Bangert is a clinical assistant professor in the Urban Teacher Education department at Indiana University Indianapolis and serves as program coordinator for the Early Childhood Education program.
Associate Professor
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Brown serves as the Director of IU Indianapolis' 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
Marella Croom is an experienced elementary education teacher who served in that role for 20 years before transitioning to higher education. Professor Croom works with undergraduate and graduate students specializing in elementary mathematics.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Samantha Franklin has been a professional educator for over 22 years in K-12 and higher education settings. Her research and passions lie in the areas of social justice, equity, and advocacy through the school counseling lens.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Brittany Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Urban Teacher Education at the IU School of Education in Indianapolis.
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Lonni Gill is in her 38th year of teaching; spanning Kindergarten through graduate courses in Urban Teacher Education. She also helps coordinate elementary student teaching experiences and coaches student teachers and coaches.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Michelle C.S. Greene, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Urban Teacher Education Department. Her work focuses on pedagogy and practices to best empower and support culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families.
Assistant Dean for Student Support, Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Ted Hall is the assistant dean for student support and a clinical associate professor in the departments of Urban Teacher Education and Africana Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. at the Michigan State University in Learning, Technology and Culture and has taught at several universities in the United States and Asia, including Martin University, Indiana University Bloomington, The Ohio State University, and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. His primary research interests include the interface between culture, cognition, and epistemic knowledge.
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.
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 IU Indianapolis. 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, Professor, Adjunct 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.
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.
David Hòa Khoa Nguyen, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
David teaches and researches in areas of education law and policy and is an associate professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy and adjunct professor of law at IU Indianapolis.
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 Associate Professor
Dr. Tina O’Neal is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at Indiana University.
Associate Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy in Urban Education
Dr. Jeremy Price focuses on collaborating with students, educators, and communities to plan, facilitate, and evaluatejust and equitable learning environments for each learner, particularly those who represent marginalized identities andcommunities.
Cristina Santamaría Graff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff is an Associate Professor of Special Education specializing in family centered scholarship that honors and sustains families of disabled youth at multiple identity intersections in urban educational settings.
James Joseph “Jim” Scheurich Ph.D.
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.
Assistant Research Scientist
Dr. Brandon Sherman is an educational researcher specializing in qualitative inquiry. He is a co-PI on the US DoE NPD grant funded initiative, Project CELEBRATE. He is the current President of Indiana TESOL. Dr. Sherman is also an Alumni Ambassador for English Language Programs.
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Engagement
Dr. Sosa serves as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Engagement. Her research explores literacy and the creation of accessible and supportive learning environments.
Roberto (Gershon) Swazo, Ph.D., P.S.L.
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 Associate Professor
Dr. Kara M. Taylor is a public intellectual dedicated to the emancipation/liberation of marginalized communities. She isa clinical assistant professor with a specialty of literacy in the UTE program. She researches healing spaces created byliteracy.
Professor of Language Education
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.
Clinical Professor
Dr. Gina Borgioli Yoder is interested in issues of educational change and leadership in mathematics and language education as they relate to pedagogy, policy, and teacher education.