Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and language revitalization. Her first language acquisition research focuses on the interaction of syntactic and discourse–pragmatic […]
Anthony Abraham Jack
Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University. Dr. Jack’s research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the Doubly Disadvantaged—those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools—and the Privileged Poor, or those who do so from […]
Laura M. Jiménez
Dr. Laura M. Jiménez, BU Wheelock’s associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion and a senior lecturer in literacy education, has always been intrigued by the ways elements such as purpose, person, text, and context, of any given reading event interact to influence reading comprehension and meaning making in the classroom. Studying both literature and […]
Anna Lim
Dr. Anna Lim is a lecturer in Deaf studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, where she teaches various topics in deaf studies and Deaf education including the dynamics of diversity, oppression, and social justice in deaf communities and sign language structure. Her research interests encompass multilingualism of deaf people of […]
Alina Lingley
Alina Lingley is a doctoral student at BU Wheelock pursuing a degree in educational leadership & policy studies. She studying history curriculum, diversity, and multiculturalism in history curriculum, and how history curriculum can improve through leaders in education. Previously, Alina worked as a high school history teacher, teaching world history and art history for five […]
Rob Martinelle
Dr. Rob Martinelle is a senior lecturer in social studies education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He teaches both foundational courses and social studies method courses to undergraduate and graduate students, while his research focuses on reflective teaching, social studies teacher preparation, and the self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP). […]
Thomas J. McKenna
Dr. Thomas “TJ” McKenna is a lecturer in science education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He has spent the past 20 years as a scientist, educator (formal and informal), on-air science communicator, and faculty member focused on uncovering what works well in STEM education and how we can improve in scaling […]
Ashley R. Moore
Dr. Ashley R. Moore is a critical applied linguist and an assistant professor in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program in the Language & Literacy Education Department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research program has two main strands: the first pursues the realization of queer-inclusive and […]
Ola Ozernov-Palchik
Dr. Ola Ozernov-Palchik is a senior research scientist at BU’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development and a research scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Her research focuses on the neurocognitive mechanisms of reading and language comprehension, with an emphasis on typical and atypical development. Dr. Ozernov-Palchik employs advanced cross-disciplinary […]
Carla Romney
Dr. Carla Romney is the Director of Research for CityLab, a pre-college biomedical sciences program that develops and implements laboratory-based curriculum supplements that are intended to inspire young people to pursue STEM and health professions careers. As a Principal Investigator on CityLab’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award grants, she is responsible […]