Photo caption: Top row (left to right): Dylan Marsh, Kiana Willis and Honey Walrond. Middle row (left to right): Boshi Wang, Michael Sanseviro and Tyler Skinner. Bottom row (left to right): Katherine Sullivan, Leah Oakes and Morgan Tate.
The College of Education & Human Development (CEHD) welcomes several new faculty members for the 2026-2027 academic year – faculty whose research, teaching and service make significant contributions to the college and its students.
“The CEHD is thrilled to warmly welcome these new colleagues to our faculty,” said Dean Candace Kuby. “They each bring extensive experience and expertise in their respective fields to our college and broader community. Georgia State University students will greatly benefit from learning alongside these faculty members.”
Counseling and Psychological Services
Dylan Marsh is an assistant professor who earned his doctorate in counseling psychology at Colorado State University in 2026. His research examines how people experience meaning and purpose in their work and in their broader lives, with a particular emphasis on sense of calling, meaningful work, meaning making and the future of work. More recently, he has investigated how rapid changes in the workforce stemming from the increasing integration of artificial intelligence and automation may affect people’s ability to find and experience meaningful work.
Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Kiana Willis is a clinical assistant professor who earned her Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice from the University of Georgia in 2026. Her research explores how in-service and pre-service educators engage with healing, creativity and care, drawing on endarkened feminist epistemologies, critical pedagogy and participatory arts-based methodologies.
Educational Policy Studies
Honey Walrond is an assistant professor in educational leadership who earned her Ph.D. in English (Literacy) Education and Educational Leadership and Policy from Columbia University in 2025. Her research focuses on how Black leaders create affirming learning environments for Black students and what leaders do to engage Black families and communities in school- and district-level decision-making.
Boshi Wang is a limited-term assistant professor who earned his doctoral degree in educational policy studies with a concentration in research, measurement and statistics from Georgia State University in 2026. He centers his research on advancing methodological rigor, equitable assessment and ethical practice. His quantitative methodological scholarship primarily explores latent variable modeling, with a specific focus on measurement invariance testing in latent transition analysis.
Michael Sanseviro, professor of practice and Georgia State's vice president emeritus for student engagement, earned his Ph.D. at Georgia State University in 2006. With over 35 years of administrative experience in higher education and student affairs, he retired from the University System of Georgia in 2026 and later returned to join the faculty and teach in the higher education graduate programs.
Kinesiology and Health
Tyler Skinner is an assistant professor who earned his Ph.D. in Sport Management and Policy from the University of Georgia in 2024. His research in sports economics focuses on the impact of management on firm performance, executive compensation and other labor issues in sport. Skinner’s research has been published in several academic journals, such as Sport Management Review, the Journal of Sport Management, American Behavioral Scientist, Applied Economics Letters and Managerial Finance.
Katherine Sullivan is an assistant professor who earned her Ph.D. in Kinesiology/Exercise Science from the University of Alabama in 2023. Her research focuses on body composition assessment, physiological phenotyping, exercise physiology and the development of innovative approaches to assessing health, physical performance and chronic disease risk across diverse populations. Through her research, she aims to improve the assessment of health and performance while informing evidence-based strategies for disease prevention and health promotion.
Learning Sciences
Leah Oakes is an assistant professor in deaf education who earned their Ph.D. in Deaf Education and a Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Methods from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2026. Oakes’s research draws on qualitative and mixed-methods methodologies to explore deaf health literacies, harm reduction and multilingual and multimodal approaches to deaf education, including instruction for deaf and language-deprived deaf (DALD) students.
Middle and Secondary Education
Morgan Tate is a clinical assistant professor who earned her Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice with a focus in Social Studies Education and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies from the University of Georgia in 2023. Her research queries the intersection of social education, ethics and land relations utilizing artful inquiry. Recently, she collaborated with scholars at Western Carolina University in oral history research about educators' experiences of Hurricane Helene.