Faculty and Research

Dean Valerie Kinloch was recognized as one of the most influential education scholars in the United States in the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence rankings. She is the only person from the University of Pittsburgh to make the list.

Dancy was named one of three recipients of the 2022 Derrick Bell Legacy Award, presented by the Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA). 

The Pitt team was one of 30 winners selected in the Learning Engineering Tools Competition, a global search for promising new education ideas.

Faculty member Xu Qin has been selected as a 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.

McCambly's dissertation explores how grantmakers influence postsecondary policy systems.

University of Pittsburgh School of Education faculty members Shannon Wanless and Gina Garcia were awarded 2022 Chancellor's Distinguished Awards. 

Pitt Education faculty member Cassie Quigley and Danielle Andrews-Brown received a 2022 Pitt Sustainability Award. 

Patel is one of 17 new members elected to the honorific society this year.

Gina Garcia, associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, was selected for Pitt’s 2021 Creating A Just Community Award in recognition of her service and scholarship centered around justice in higher education.

A new project led by faculty at the School of Education and Pitt's School of Arts & Sciences seeks to explore how uprisings and labor strikes may give rise to freedom work in education.

The Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education (P.R.I.D.E) program of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education will participate in a project to extend its work to the Philadelphia region.