D. Brent Edwards Jr. Chair
Interests: Political Economy of Education Reform; International Organizations; Policy Borrowing and Traveling; Policy implementation (esp. decentralization/participation and market-based reforms); Global Education Policy; Global Governance of Education; Knowledge production and mobilization
Baoyan Cheng Graduate Chair
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
Marsha Ninomiya Office Manager
Interests: Ballroom dancing Traveling/Cruising
Xu Di Professor
Interests: Educational Foundations, Philosophy, Multicultural and International educ., teacher education
Dawn Furushima Faculty
Interests: Motivation, Retention, TESOL, Multiculturalism
Vara Mann Faculty
Interests: Multicultural education and cross-cultural studies
Alexander Means Associate Professor
Interests: Critical AI Studies in Education; Education, Work, and Technology; Cultural Politics of Knowledge; University Studies; Environmental Humanities; Climate Politics; Educational Commons; Democratic Pedagogies
Kekailoa Perry Associate Professor
Interests: Aloha ʻĀina, Hulikua Pedagogies, and Sovereignty.The Intersection of race and culture in education policy, emancipatory pedagogies centered on Kanaka ʻŌiwi refusal and Guerrilla Intellectualism.
Manca Sustarsic Faculty
Interests: International Education, Exchange Programs, Global Citizenship Education, Global Education Policy, Youth Development
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