Alexander Means Chair
Interests: Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Critical Theory, Urban Education, Political Economy, Learning, Work, and Technology, Cultural Studies, 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. 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
Derek Taira Assistant Professor
Interests: cultural diversity in education; 20th century social and cultural American History; History of American Education; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; History of Territorial Hawaiʻi; Settler Colonialism; U.S. Education Policy
Hannah Tavares Associate Professor
Interests: ; Multiculturalism and education, philosophies of race and ethnicity, feminist theory and body politics, media and cultural studies, 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