CPED Board of Directors
Stanton Wortham, PhD - Chair
Stanton Wortham is the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. He was formerly the Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Interim Dean twice. He earned his B.A. with highest honors from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Human Development. His research applies techniques from linguistic anthropology to study interaction, learning and leadership development in classrooms and organizations. Books include Learning Identity, Bullish on Uncertainty, and Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event. He has most recently done research with Mexican immigrants, and his book Migration Narratives will be published in late 2020. He has been a W.T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow, and he is a member of the National Academy of Education. He has received the American Educational Research Association Cattell Early Career Research Award and the University of Pennsylvania Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. In both research and practice, he and his colleagues at Boston College are implementing a broad vision of “formative education,” in which educators are responsible for fostering the development of whole people, including interrelations among intellectual, interpersonal, emotional, ethical, and spiritual dimensions.
Gretchen Givens Generett, PhD - Chair Elect
Dr. Gretchen Generett is a distinguished scholar, academic leader, and advocate for education whose career spans more than two decades. Currently serving as the Dean of the School of Education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she also holds the Noble J. Dick Endowed Chair in Community Outreach. She has been involved with CPED since 2006.
For Dr. Generett's full bio, click HERE.
Gaëtane Jean-Marie, PhD - Immediate Past Chair
Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Ph.D. is dean of the College of Education at Rowan University. Prior to Rowan, she was the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa, she was a department chair and professor of educational leadership at the University of Louisville and held a faculty position at the University of Oklahoma and Florida International University. She has over 90 publications which include books, book chapters, and academic articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her most recent co-edited book is Comparative International Perspectives on Education and Social Change in Developing and Developed Nations (2015, Information Age). She is the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Alumni Award from her alma mater.
Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu, PhD - Secretary
Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu is professor and Dean of the James R. Watson & Judy Rodriguez Watson College of Education at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). He exercises the academic and administrative oversight over a college of 3 departments, 6 teaching credentials, 11 master's degree programs, and a doctoral program in educational leadership. He also has direct oversight of the Doctor of Education (EDD) Program. Dean DomNwachukwu is actively involved with the community and external constituencies that the university serves in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. For Dr. DomNwachukwu's full bio, click HERE.
Alma Dolores Rodríguez, PhD - Treasurer
Dr. Alma Dolores Rodríguez is Dean of the College of Education and P-16 Integration at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). She received her Doctor of Education degree from The University of Houston. Her research and scholarship focus on the improvement of teacher preparation programs with an emphasis on meeting the needs of Latina/o emergent bilingual students, teachers, and communities. Dr. Rodriguez was president of the Texas Association of Teacher Educators (TxATE) and served on the board of the Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE). She is currently a member dean of Deans for Impact and of the Texas Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (TACTE). In the summer of 2020, Dr. Rodríguez was appointed to serve on the State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) in the state of Texas.
Diego Arambula, EdM
Diego Arambula is Vice President for Education Transformation at the Carnegie Foundation, where he leads strategic initiatives and partnerships with educators, policymakers, employers, and community organizations to advance educational innovation and improvement.
With more than 15 years of experience, Diego previously served as a managing partner at Transcend, founder and executive director of GO Public Schools Fresno, and held leadership roles at Summit Public Schools, including classroom teacher, founding principal, and chief growth and innovation officer.
Diego also serves on several education and community boards. He is a trustee of the California State University System, where he chairs the Education Policy Committee, and is board chair of Summit Public Schools and the Central Valley Community Foundation. He earned an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.Ed. from Stanford University.
Carole Basile, PhD
Carole G. Basile is the Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). As Dean at ASU, her work has centered on redesigning the education workforce and workplace--creating models for strategic staffing—all to drive working and learning environments that support the need for learning in new economy. She is currently working with education organizations nationally and internationally to design new systems for educators and their students and enable organizational change away from the traditional grammar of schooling. Her background in educator preparation is extensive, with over 30 years working in higher education. Her experience stems from early experiences in business and an understanding of how workforce design and development is needed to change the way schools’ staff and operate. With this background, she is currently developing a new blueprint for educator preparation to address the current needs of the overall workforce through accessible, flexible, and responsive systems. She has published numerous articles, books, book chapters, and technical papers. Her books include: A Good Little School and Intellectual Capital: The Intangible Assets of Professional Development Schools. She is an invited speaker at national and international conferences and meetings about Next Education Workforce and is committed to scaling change for learners, educators, and communities. Her community work is also extensive as she has actively partnered with many schools and school districts, community and youth serving organizations, and businesses to create access and opportunity for all children and youth. She currently serves on the boards of Education Reimagined, Verse Video, Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate, and Teach for America Phoenix.
William Crawley, PhD
Dr. William Crawley was the founding dean of the University of West Florida College of Education and Professional Studies in 2014. Dr. Crawley is an innovative leader, author, and presenter whose research has informed his work in the classroom and as an academic administrator. With leadership at the core of his work, Dr. Crawley’s research interest has led him to be extensively involved in public-service and community-based initiatives, where he has served as the principal investigator for multi-million-dollar projects.
Joseph Flessa, PhD
Joseph Flessa is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and Associate Dean, Programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Before earning his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a public school teacher in Texas and director of an international school in Mexico. In 2021, he was awarded OISE’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. For Dr. Flessa's full bio, click HERE.
Peggy Kong, EdD
Peggy A. Kong (she/her) is a clinical associate professor specializing in educational policy and comparative education at the University of Utah. Her interdisciplinary research examines immigrant families, rural education, family-school partnerships, and transnational education, with a particular focus on race, racism, and the immigrant experience. For more than two decades, she has conducted research in rural China and East Asia and has led funded studies exploring parent-school relationships, kindergarten transition, and school readiness among immigrant and non-immigrant families.
Dr. Kong teaches courses in educational policy, comparative and international education, program evaluation, globalization and education, Chinese education and society, and research methods.
She serves on the board of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and is co-chair of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) Online/Hybrid CPED Improvement Group. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University and her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Nathan Murata, PhD
Dr. Murata is a Full Professor in the Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS) department, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and Dean of their College of Education. He has co-authored two textbooks, produced numerous publications and local, state, national and international presentations. He has secured over $3.5 million dollars in U.S. DOE, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Programs training grants, and contracts worth over $1.5 million from the State of Hawaii, Department of Health focusing on the Hawai'i Concussion Awareness and Management Program (HCAMP) in collaboration with the Hawai'i Department of Education. Currently, he is Co-PI for HuTT808 project along with colleagues from UMASS, Lowell on Reducing Head Impacts for Hawaii High School football players. Working within the context of Adapted Physical Education, and with the support of external partners, he organized the first Interscholastic high school basketball games featuring both students with disabilities and those who are at-risk called Friday Night Prime Time.
Noelle Paufler, PhD
Dr. Noelle A. Paufler is an Associate Professor - P-12, Assistant Department Chair, and the Program Coordinator for the EdD in Education Systems Improvement Science at Clemson University. She has experience as a high school social studies teacher, district administrator, and applied researcher in high-need districts and schools. Her research interests include K-12 educational policy, specifically how educational leaders enact policy into practice and its impact on teachers and students. She is the Co-Director of the Leading Educational Administrator Development for Excellent Rural Schools (LEADERS) Center of Excellence. She is actively involved in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) as the delegate for Clemson University and currently serves as the Program Chair for the American Educational Research Association Supervision and Instructional Leadership Special Interest Group.
Jill A. Perry, PhD
Jill Alexa Perry is the Executive Director for the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. She has an appointment as Research Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she received her PhD in International Education Policy. Dr. Perry’s research focuses on professional doctorate preparation in education, organizational change in higher education, teacher professionalization, and teacher issues both nationally and internationally. She has over 18 years of experience in leadership and program development in education and teaching experience at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels in the US and abroad. She is a Fulbright Scholar (Germany) and a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Paraguay). Dr. Perry is the chair of the Research & Innovation Advisory Board of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association.
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, PhD
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is a Professor and the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the Executive Director of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), a national organization dedicated to advancing the study and practice of community colleges in the United States. Prior to her role at Pitt, she was a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she directed the Office for Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) from 2015–2022, securing over $10 million in grants and contracts. For Dr. Zamani-Gallaher's full bio, click HERE.
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