![image of Alexander Means](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/764/original.jpg?1574136648)
Alexander Means Chair
Interests: Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Critical Theory, Urban Education, Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Social Movements
![image of Marsha Ninomiya](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/067/original.png?1574136505)
Marsha Ninomiya Office Manager
Interests: Ballroom dancing Traveling/Cruising
![image of Baoyan Cheng](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/099/original.png?1574136564)
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
![image of Xu Di](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/165/original.png?1567798793)
Xu Di Professor
Interests: Educational Foundations, Philosophy, Multicultural and International educ., teacher education
![image of D. Brent Edwards Jr.](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/401/original.jpg?1560198937)
D. Brent Edwards Jr. Associate Professor
Interests: International Organizations; Policy Borrowing and Traveling; 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
![image of Derek Taira](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/400/original.jpg?1574136538)
Derek Taira Associate Professor
Interests: politics of education; 20th century social and cultural American History; History of American Education; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; History of Territorial Hawaiʻi; Settler Colonialism
![image of Hannah Tavares](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/021/original.jpg?1574380119)
Hannah Tavares Associate Professor
Interests: ; Multiculturalism and education, philosophies of race and ethnicity, feminist theory, and postfoundational research approaches to the educational world.
![image of Steven Bell](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/892/original.jpg?1662597666)
Steven Bell Affiliated Faculty
![image of Lori Ideta](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/806/original.jpg?1572988986)
Lori Ideta Affiliated Faculty
![image of Keiichi Ogawa](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/817/original.jpg?1588284040)
Keiichi Ogawa Affiliated Faculty
Interests: Economics of Education, Education Finance, Education Policy and Planning, Impact Evaluation, Comparative International Education