Alexander Means Chair
Interests: Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Critical Theory, Urban Education, Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Social Movements
Marsha Ninomiya Office Manager
Interests: Ballroom dancing Traveling/Cruising
Baoyan Cheng Professor
Interests: Comparative/International Education with special interest in Chinese education; international student mobility; equity issues in higher education ; globalization and cultural issues in education; liberal arts education in the global context
Xu Di Professor
Interests: Educational Foundations, Philosophy, Multicultural and International educ., teacher education
D. Brent Edwards Jr. Professor
Interests: Policy Borrowing and Traveling; International Organizations; Political Economy of Education Reform; Policy implementation (esp. decentralization/participation and market-based reforms); Knowledge production and mobilization; Global Education Policy; Global Governance of Education
Kekailoa Associate Professor
Derek Taira Associate Professor
Interests: Settler Colonialism; 20th century social and cultural American History; politics of education; History of Territorial Hawaiʻi; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; History of American Education
Hannah Tavares Associate Professor
Interests: ; Multiculturalism and education, philosophies of race and ethnicity, feminist theory, and postfoundational research approaches to the educational world.
Steven Bell Affiliated Faculty
Lori Ideta Affiliated Faculty
Keiichi Ogawa Affiliated Faculty
Interests: Economics of Education, Education Finance, Education Policy and Planning, Impact Evaluation, Comparative International Education