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International Studies SIG Officers

Officers:

Chair Johanna Lasonen (2013-2016) Professor, Dr. Johanna Lasonen works as Professor at the University of South Florida (USF), College of Education, Department of Adult, Career and Higher Education, Tampa, USA. Her areas of scholarly interest are comparing education systems in terms of equity issues, career and workforce education, intercultural education and diversity in schools and workforce.
Secretary/Treasurer Elizabeth Reilly (2013-2016) Dr. Elizabeth C. Reilly serves Professor of Educational Leadership and Administration for the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA. She presents and researches internationally on leadership; organizational culture and change; and women in leadership. She works with leaders of multinationals, government, non-governmental organizations, and education on five continents. In the years preceding her appointments in higher education, Dr. Reilly served as a classroom teacher and educational leader in K-12 school organizations. She is the author and co-author of numerous books and journal articles on education and on leadership in a global society. Dr. Reilly is the elected Secretary-Treasurer of AERA’s International Studies Special Interest Group and the Co-Chair of the fifty-member Substantive Change Committee for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. She was recently selected as a Jackson Scholar Mentor with University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), supporting doctoral students of color in the USA who aspire to the professorate.
Program Chair Barbara Gari (2012 -2015) SUNY Oswego [email protected] Barbara Gari is the Associate Dean of the School of Education at SUNY Oswego, with a specific charge to create expanded global opportunities and collaborations for students, staff, and faculty within the SOE and across the campus. Her global research explores how early professional experiences in international settings impact and influence teachers' pedagogy and practice.
Secretary/Treasurer Ming Tak Hu (2007-2013) Institute of Education Hong Kong [email protected] Hue Ming Tak is an Associate Professor in Department of Special Education and Counseling, Hong Kong Institute of Education. He then began his research at the Institute of Education, University of London, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2001. With his experience as a teacher in a Hong Kong secondary school, he has a wide experience of practice in learning, teaching, counseling, guidance and school discipline. His research focuses on student guidance, school discipline, classroom management and ethnic minority education.
Newsletter Editor Barbara Gari (2008-2012) SUNY Oswego [email protected] Barbara Gari is the Associate Dean of the School of Education at SUNY Oswego, with a specific charge to create expanded global opportunities and collaborations for students, staff, and faculty within the SOE and across the campus. Her global research explores how early professional experiences in international settings impact and influence teachers' pedagogy and practice.
Web Master Sharon Anne O'Connor-Petruso (2003-2016) City University of New York at Brooklyn College [email protected] Sharon A. O'Connor-Petruso is known for her work in both instructional technology and secondary analysis of large databases. Her MST Model (O'Connor-Petruso, 2005; 2010) and data aggregation system she created as Program Head for both the Graduate and Undergraduate Program spearheaded Childhood Education to NCATE accreditation. Her research interests continue to be the exploration of predictor variables that lead to high achievement in the hard sciences, instructional technology, gender issues, service learning initiatives worldwide, and secondary analysis of large databases. Her additional web pages include: Action Research Projects Wiki Web Sites:http://earlyactionresearch.wikispaces.com http://actionresearchprojects.wikispaces.com/ and MST Web Site: http://mymstwiki.wikispaces.com http://mymstwikinet1.wikispaces/com
*Awards Committee*
Awards Committee Chair, James Reed Campbell (2003-2016) IS Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 St.John's University, Jamaica, New York [email protected]\ Dr. James Reed Campbell is a Professor at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York. He directs the American Math Olympiad Study and supervises the International Olympiad Studies (IOS). His extensive research on the IOS can be found at http://www.OLYMPIADPROJECTS.com/. Current research about the Olympians is available in the following publication, co-authored by a team of international researchers: Dr. Campbell is actively involved in the International Studies SIG and has Chaired the Awards Committee for several years.
Awards Committee Hsiu-Zu Ho (2003-2016) University of California Santa Barbara [email protected] Hsiu-Zu Ho is professor of psychology and education at the University of California Santa Barbara and affiliated with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Her cross-national research examines factors that influence academic achievement including parent involvement, student and parent attitudes and values and motivation. Her research examines cultural and gender variations in aspects of behavioral development. She has been actively involved in the International Studies SIG for a decade and served as the SIG's president from 2004-2007.
Awards Committee Sharon Anne O'Connor-Petruso (2003-2016) City University of New York at Brooklyn College [email protected]
*Board Members*
Ming Fang He (2008-2011) Georgia State University [email protected] Ming Fang He is Professor of Curriculum Studies at Georgia Southern University and Professor of Curriculum [an elected member of an honor society affiliated with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the American Educational Research Association]. She was the recipient of her College of Education’s The Jack Miller Outstanding Educator of the Year Award (2003-2004) and the recipient of the Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and/or Creative Activity (2005-2006). She advises doctoral students, directs doctoral dissertations, and teaches graduate courses in curriculum studies, multicultural education, and qualitative research methods. Her preservice teacher education courses are in foundations of education. She explores education, inquiry, and life in-between the Eastern, Western, and exile philosophy and curriculum with a particular focus on Confucius, Dewey, Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Said. She has written about cross-cultural narrative inquiry of language, culture, and identity in multicultural contexts, cross-cultural teacher education, curriculum studies, activist practitioner inquiry, social justice research, exile curriculum, narrative of curriculum in the U. S. South, transnational and diasporic studies.
Gustavo E. Fischman (2009-2013) Arizona State University [email protected]\ Gustavo E. Fischman: Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.. His areas of specialization are Comparative Education, Higher Education Policy Studies, and Gender Studies in Education. His doctoral dissertation won the 1998 Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award of the Comparative and International Education Society. In 2005 he was selected as Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies Lancaster University. In 2008 he was a Visiting Fellow in the undusfor Masters and in 2009 he obtained a New Century Scholar Award from the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He actively collaborates on projects in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, and is the author of several books and numerous articles on critical pedagogies, teacher education, and gender issues in education. He is the lead editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and a co-editor of Education Review.
Lotte Rahvek Schou (2008-2011) Aarhus University, Denmark [email protected]
Lee Hean Lim (2010-2013) Nanyang Technological University
Binbin Jiang (2008-2011) Kennesaw State University [email protected]
Jennifer DeBoer: Newslettter Editor (2013-2016) Board Member: (2010-2013) Vanderbilt University [email protected] Jennifer DeBoer is currently postdoctoral associate for education research at MIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory. Her research interests include the use of technology in education and the structure of engineering training for local capacity building. Currently, she is analyzing data from MOOCs, studying methods of assessment global competence, and investigating engineering education in developing contexts.
Past Board Members
Kirsi Tirri President (2010-2013) Kirsi Tirri is a Professor at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki. She is also a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Prof. Tirri is the President of the European Council of High Abilities (ECHA). She serves on several Editorial Boards of leading educational journals and contributes to both European and American research networks. Her research interests include teacher education, gifted education, moral and religious education and cross-cultural studies. You can read more of her work from the www-page: http://www.helsinki.fi/~ktirri


Donald Sharpe President (2007-2010) Emeritus College, Arizona State University [email protected] Donald K. Sharpe Ph.D. is Professor in the Emeritus College at Arizona State University, a former research associate at Stanford University and director in the U.S. Dept. of Education in Washington DC. He has taught at the universities of Maryland, Maine, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Utah State, Weber State and Arizona State. He did postdoctoral studies at the University of Sussex, was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in 1998–1999, and has lived and worked in the Middle East. He has authored 17 books and over 240 articles in the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and teacher education. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune, and a contributor to several western newspapers. He has been published in the U.S., England, Finland, Norway, Germany (in German), India, Malaysia, China (in Chinese), Hong Kong, and Denmark (in Danish). He has been awarded three Fulbright scholarships, one each to Malaysia, Cyprus and Denmark. He has been sponsored by the governments of Malaysia, China, South Africa, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and universities throughout the world. Personal Web site:http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsharpes/index.htm	Professor Donald Sharpe 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
Hsiu-Zu Ho President (2004-2007) University of California Santa Barbara [email protected]
Mary E. Brenner President (2003-2007) Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California [email protected]
Allen Menlo President	Professor Allen Menlo 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award
Program Chair Stephen Heynemann (2009-2013) Vanderbilt University [email protected]
David Miller Program Chair (2007-2010) American Institute for Research Washington, DC [email protected] Dr. David C. Miller is a Senior Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) (http://www.air.org). His primary research interests and expertise are in the areas of comparative education, international assessment, longitudinal studies, academic achievement, motivation and self-regulation. Dr. Miller has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Development/Educational Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since joining AIR in 1999, Dr. Miller has analyzed data from large survey data sets with complex sampling designs, using both bivariate and multivariate techniques. Since 2003, Dr. Miller has worked in support of NCES on international surveys, where he has done research and analysis with data from PISA, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Ming Fang He *Program Head* (2003-2007) Georgia State University [email protected]
T.C. Chan Secretary/Treasurer (2003-2009) College of Education Kennesaw State University [email protected] Dr. Tak Cheung Chan, Professor of Educational Leadership, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, is a graduate of the University of Georgia. He was a classroom teacher, assistant school principal, school principal, and district office administrator. His previous experience in higher education includes serving as an assistant professor at Valdosta State University, and an associate professor at Georgia Southern University. His research interests include educational planning, facility planning, school business administration, school finance, and international education.
Bryan Moseley Newsletter Editor (2006-2009) College of Education Florida International University [email protected] Bryan Moseley Assistant professor of Educational Psychology. Research interests: Use of representations in early rational number and algebraic reasoning, mathematical language in word problems. In 2000 I completed my PhD in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in cognitive science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My work during this time investigated student’s organization of rational number knowledge based on the type of curricula they had received. As Assistant Professor at Florida International University, my current research interests focus more on investigating ways that cultural and informal knowledge influence representational understanding of more formal mathematical concepts such as algebra or rational number.
Yukari Okamoto Board Member (2007-2010) University of California [email protected]
Kirsi Tirri Board Member (2006-2009) University of Helsinki [email protected]
Vishna Herrity Board Member (2006-2009) Gevritz Research Center University of California [email protected] Dr. Vishna Herrity is the Executive Director of the Gevity Research Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her research interests include: Training of principals and teachers to address the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse student populations; curriculum design, instructional methodology, and assessment from an international perspective; family literacy; complementary education; and university-school district-community partnerships.
Betty Eng Board Member (2005-2008) City University of Hong [email protected] Betty C. Eng is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, Department of Applied Social Studies. Her research interests include teacher knowledge.
Karen Monkman Board Member (2004-2007) DePaul University [email protected]