Mark Chin
Assistant Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations

Professor Chin studies the impacts of K-12 education policy on the outcomes of youth in schools and in adulthood.

Cynthia Osborne
Professor of Early Childhood Education and Policy Executive Director, Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center

Professor Osborne studies social policy, poverty and inequality, family and child well-being and family demography. She leads long-term evaluations of state and national programs to help organizations and policymakers  implement effective policies.

Jennifer Russell
Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations

Professor Russell examines educational policy from an organizational perspective and seeks to accelerate improvement initiatives by reshaping the relationship between educational research and practice.

Thomas Smith
Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations

Peabody welcomes back Professor Smith, who studies education policy. He designs and evaluates procedures, policies and programs to improve learning opportunities for all students and to close gaps among marginalized groups. 

Richard Welsh
Associate Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations

Professor Welsh’s research focuses on the economics of education and K-12 education policy analysis. He studies the efficacy, equity and political dimensions of education reform in urban school districts, with an emphasis on school choice policies, student mobility and school discipline.

Deon Benton
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Professor Benton uses behavioral experiments and computational modeling to study how infants and young children acquire knowledge and concepts.

Alexander Christensen
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Professor Christensen uses computational linguistics to better understand and engage student success in the classroom.

Justine Hoch
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Professor Hoch studies behavioral development related to exploratory behavior, learning and development of perception-action systems.

Kimberly Marble
Assistant Professor of the Practice

Professor Marble studies how school-age children evaluate the reliability of sources of information and their reasoning about moral principles.

Sophia Vinci-Booher
Assistant Professor of Educational Neuroscience

Professor Vinci-Booher studies how the brain changes and reorganizes throughout the lifespan, including how specific sensorimotor training experiences contribute to brain changes and the relationship of these changes to learning.

Eric Wilkey
Assistant Professor of Educational Neuroscience

Professor Wilkey’s research focuses on educational neuroscience, primarily in the development of mathematical skills and neurocognitive mechanisms that enable mathematical cognition.

Cristina Zepeda
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development

Professor Zepeda studies how people learn and ways to best support learners from middle school through college, focusing primarily on the metacognitive and motivational components of learning and various instructional techniques.

Scott Crossley
Professor of Special Education

Professor Crossley’s research focuses on network and data science in psychology with an emphasis on psychometrics in longitudinal data. He is excited by the use of computational linguistics to better understand and engage student success in the classroom.

Kristen Granger
Assistant Professor of Special Education

Professor Granger studies dynamic systems within early childhood and elementary school classrooms that influence the social, behavioral and academic development of students with and at risk for high-incidence disabilities, including emotional/behavioral disorders.

Jessica Logan
Associate Professor of Special Education

Professor Logan is a quantitative methodologist who studies child development, with an emphasis on growth in academic skills from preschool through fourth grade for children at risk for learning disabilities.

Nicole Allen
Professor of Human and Organizational Development

Professor Allen is the new chair of the Department of Human and Organizational Development. She studies community responses to gender-based violence, cross-sector community collaboration, and systems and organizational change.

Craig Blaha
Lecturer 

Craig Blaha’s research and teaching focus on social networking, privacy and preservation.

Kayla Fike
Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development 

Professor Fike studies how young Black and Brown people living in urban areas think about their hometowns and how those thoughts influence their ideas about who they can become and the futures of their communities.

Jyoti Gupta
Assistant Professor of the Practice

Professor Gupta's research interests include community development and urban studies, community organizing, race and ethnic studies, subjectivity, health equity and action research.

Ashmeet Oberoi
Associate Professor of the Practice

Professor Oberoi's research focuses on understanding and creating settings and communities where diverse individuals can intentionally engage across their differences.

Rong Wang
Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development

Professor Wang studies network analysis and organization, focusing on understanding multilevel organizing phenomena, evaluating its effectiveness for solving social issues and leveraging the power of networks and collective intelligence.

LaToya Anderson
Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Immersion

LaToya Anderson is passionate about coaching and developing teachers at all stages of experience and is excited about nurturing partnerships among Vanderbilt, community organizations and local schools.

Jacob Bennett
Lecturer

Jacob Bennett’s research focuses on how perceptions of racial identity and systemic inequities influence interactions between White teachers and their students. He is committed to supporting educators in developing racially equitable and socially just teaching practice.

Huili Hong
Professor of the Practice

Professor Hong studies multilingual learner education and teacher preparation. She is excited to work with people interested in teaching and learning additional languages and cultures, as this engagement helps to build a more peaceful, just and equitable world.

Meghan Riling
Assistant Professor of the Practice

Professor Riling investigates social justice mathematics and will teach secondary mathematics education.

Blaine Smith
Associate Professor of the Practice

Professor Smith studies multimodal learning with multilingual students. She is an expert in integrating instructional technologies in diverse classrooms, instructional scaffolding, digital literacy and teaching multimodal composition.

Amber Warren
Associate Professor of the Practice

Professor Warren examines teachers’ reasoning related to equity, policy and pedagogy in online language teacher education, teachers' responses to evaluation policies in local contexts, and how linguistically and culturally sustaining instruction can be promoted in K-16 settings.