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.

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.

Kofi Lomotey, PhD - Secretary

Dr. Kofi Lomotey is the John Bardo and Deborah Bardo Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at Western Carolina University. For nearly 50 years -- as a scholar and as a practitioner -- he has focused on the education of Black people. At the higher education level, he has been a university professor, department chair, provost, president and chancellor. He has been a founder, teacher and administrator at three independent African-centered schools.

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.

Carole Basile, PhD

William Crawley, PhD

Dr. William Crawley was appointed 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.

Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu, PhD

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 the 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.  

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Sara Ewell, PhD

Sara Ewell, PhD, is the Associate Dean of Faculty for the College of Professional Studies. She previously served as the Assistant Dean of Faculty and Student Affairs, Director of the Doctor of Education, and Teaching Professor at the Graduate School of Education. During her tenure in the Graduate School of Education, she chaired nearly 100 dissertations and led the redesign of the EdD that was awarded the 2022 Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate Program of the Year. She has published extensively on professional doctorates, experiential teaching and learning and action research.  

Sara serves as a reviewer for professional journals and conferences and volunteers for various community-based organizations and the Traumatic Brain Injury Association. 

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.  

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Paul G. LeMahieu is senior advisor to the president at the Carnegie Foundation and graduate faculty in the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i – Mānoa. LeMahieu served as superintendent of education for the State of Hawai‘i, the chief educational and executive officer of the only state system that is a unitary school district, serving 190,000 students; prior to that he was undersecretary for educational policy and research for the State of Delaware. He has been president of the National Association of Test Directors and vice president of the American Educational Research Association. He served on the National Academy of Sciences' Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, Mathematical Sciences Board, National Board on Testing Policy, and the National Board on Professional Teaching Standards.

Paul’s current professional interests focus on the adaptation of improvement science methodologies for application in networks in education. He is a co-author of the book Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better (2015), and lead author of the volume Working to improve: Seven approaches to quality improvement in education (2017). He is currently working on a book entitled Assessing to improve: Practical measurement for improvement (forthcoming).

Paul has a doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s (M.Ed.) from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s (A.B.) from Yale College.  

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.

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