Photo caption: Top row (l to r): Rachael Harrington, Liz Ramos Fernandez, Melissa Rose, Jamian Coleman and Bobby Bonwenyue Gueh; second row (l to r): Tamika P. La Salle, Karie Brown, Rebecca Rohloff Clough, Daniel Edelen and Janie Copple; third row (l to r): Dionne Cowan, Michael Frisby, Casey Philip Wong, Lauren Beasley and Angela Carmon; fourth row (l to r): Marcel Lima, Xiaolu Liu, Jennifer Austin, Yin-Chan Liao and Christopher Jett.
The College of Education & Human Development welcomes 20 new faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year – faculty whose research, teaching and service make significant contributions to the college and its students.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Rachael Harrington earned her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. She studies the neurobiology of language and literacy and neurorehabilitation of alexia and aphasia. She joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders as an assistant professor.
Liz Ramos Fernandez earned her Au.D. from the University of Puerto Rico. She focuses her clinical work in aural rehabilitation in the adult population, assessment and management of tinnitus, and auditory processing disorders. She joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders as a clinical assistant professor.
Melissa Rose earned her M.Ed. from Georgia State University. Her clinical interests and experiences range from pediatrics to geriatrics, with primary focuses on language development and disorders, pediatric feeding and children with genetic and chromosomal disorders. She joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders as a clinical instructor.
Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
Jamian Coleman earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. He specializes in working with individuals living with HIV/AIDS and in substance use and recovery treatment. His research areas include chronic illness and disability, sexual and gender minority issues in counseling, and substance use and recovery. He joins the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services as a clinical assistant professor.
Bobby Bonwenyue Gueh earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His research interests include diversity within the school counseling profession, Black male success in the counseling profession, and racial justice and equity. He joins the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services as a clinical assistant professor.
Tamika P. La Salle earned her Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Her research explores the impact of cultural variables on student perceptions of school climate and culturally-responsive practices to promote equitable outcomes for students with minoritized and marginalized identities. She joins the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services as an associate professor and director of the Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management.
Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Karie Brown earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She focuses her research on teacher professional learning and its intersections with politics, language and community. Her work also centers on the humans who do mathematics and the social nature of mathematics learning and doing. She joins the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education as an assistant professor.
Rebecca Rohloff Clough earned her Ph.D. from Georgia State University. She studies early writing development, children’s play and their intersection, and effective instructional practices. She joins the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education as a clinical assistant professor.
Daniel Edelen earned his Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida. His research explores student co-constructed systems of authority, and autonomy and agency in mathematics education from an interactional and microethnographic perspective. He joins the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education as an assistant professor.
Department of Educational Policy Studies
Janie Copple earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her research explores qualitative research methodologies – specifically, feminist critical materialist approaches to narrative, autoethnographic and arts-based research and topics on motherhood and puberty education. Her teaching interests focus on helping students design theoretically informed educational qualitative studies. She joins the Department of Educational Policy Studies as an assistant professor.
Dionne Cowan earned her Ed.D. from Georgia State University. Her research investigates the school to prison pipeline; more specifically, she studies the role of leadership in the home, community and school that contributes to African American men and boys evading the grip of the pipeline. She joins the Department of Educational Policy Studies as a clinical assistant professor and serves as executive director of the Principals Center.
Michael Frisby earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research explores youths’ development of critical consciousness using psychometrics and other quantitative methods, and how quantitative methods can be repurposed for more critical and/or equity-oriented ends. He joins the Department of Educational Policy Studies as an assistant professor.
Casey Philip Wong earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research aims to advance justice by interrogating systems of coloniality, carcerality and oppression in education through critical feminist, anti-colonial and abolitionist frameworks, and by investigating and developing culturally sustaining and strength-based pedagogies to teach and learn otherwise. He joins the Department of Educational Policy Studies as an assistant professor.
Department of Kinesiology and Health
Lauren Beasley earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research explores social work in sport, with recent focus on the social work profession in sport, mental health programming in sport organizations, and the physical and mental health literacy of collegiate athletes. She joins the Department of Kinesiology and Health as an assistant professor.
Angela Carmon earned her master’s degree from the University of Phoenix. She taught in public school settings for 24 years before joining Georgia State University. Her teaching experience includes eight years at the elementary level, three years at the middle school level and 14 years at the secondary level as a health and physical educator. She joins the Department of Kinesiology and Health as a clinical instructor.
Marcel Lima will earn his Ph.D. from Georgia State University in December 2022. His research focuses on and explores effective ways to promote higher levels of physical activity among pre-K through 12 grade students, faculty and staff. He joins the Department of Kinesiology and Health as a clinical instructor.
Xiaolu Liu earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on fitness education in K-12 physical education settings and physical education teacher preparation for fitness education. She joins the Department of Kinesiology and Health as an assistant professor.
Department of Learning Sciences
Jennifer Austin earned her Ph.D. from Florida State University. Her research interests include behavior analytic applications in schools and applying our science to populations that are relatively underserved by the field, including prisoners, children in mainstream education and children who have experienced abuse and neglect. She joins the Department of Learning Sciences as an assistant professor.
Yin-Chan Liao earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research explores teacher preparation and professional development approaches to supporting K-12 teachers’ computing and technology integration in the classroom. She joins the Department of Learning Sciences as an assistant professor.
Department of Middle and Secondary Education
Christopher Jett earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. His research explores Black males’ mathematics and racialized experiences. He joins the Department of Middle and Secondary Education as an associate professor.