Editorial Board

Michael Ryan Moore (Editor)

Michael is a PhD candidate in the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Michael received his M.A. from Georgetown University's department of Communication, Culture & Technology and his B.S. from the Wharton School of Business. Building on both backgrounds, Michael is interested in how implicit and explicit organizatonal norms influence the adoption of new media practices, as well as what this adoption (or lack thereof) implies for institutional learning.

Jeremy Cutler

Jeremy is an Ed.D. student in Educational Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Urban Education Journal, Jeremy was a teacher, school counselor, and Dean of Students for over 10 years in Boston, MA and Washington, DC. During the summer, Jeremy also directs an 8-week residential program for boys in Vermont. Jeremy holds a masters in Urban Education from Harvard University. His research interests include the ways in which schools respond to and plan for students' social and emotional needs, as well as the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment.

Carolyn Chernoff

Carolyn is a joint PhD candidate in Sociology and Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. An ethnographic and qualitative researcher, Chernoff's research interests center on cities, social change, and the arts as well as broadly-defined issues of difference, inclusion, and democracy.

Katy Crawford-Garrett

Katy is a second year doctoral student in Reading/Writing/Literacy. Before coming to Penn, she taught for six years at a progressive charter school in Washington, DC and spent summers earning an M.A. in Literature and Writing at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her research interests include teacher narrative, literary theory, practitioner inquiry and critical pedagogy.

Katie McGinn

Katie is a second-year doctoral student in the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Penn, she taught high school English in Philadelphia for six years. Her current research interests include urban education, in particular urban school reform.

Thai-Huy Nguyen

Thai-Huy is a first year Ph.D. student in the Higher Education Division at the University of Pennsylvania. The scope of his interests lie within the history of higher education and the experiences of Asian American students. Prior to Penn, Thai-Huy spent time in public accounting and graduate business admissions. He is a native of San Diego, California.

Arjun Shankar

Arjun is a PhD candidate in Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, his interests include the function of knowledge paradigms in higher education, the epistemological tensions between practice and theory, the South Asian diaspora, and the Indian education system. He utilizes novel pedagogic and methodological approaches to bridge the gap between academic research and educational intervention.

David Soo

David is a second-year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education studying Higher Education. His research interests include the diversity of university missions and civic engagement. David is originally from Boston and earned his bachelors and masters degrees from Boston College.

Frances O'Connell Rust (Faculty Advisor)

Dr. Rust is a Visiting Professor and Director of Teacher Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She is Professor Emeritus at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education where she was a professor of education between 1991 and 2007. Since 1985, she has directed undergraduate and graduate-level teacher education programs at Teachers College of Columbia University, Manhattanville College, Hofstra University, and NYU. She has published widely on topics related to teacher preparation and teacher quality. As well, she has written on teacher-driven action research and school improvement. Active in numerous professional organizations, she serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Teacher Education Quarterly, and Teachers and Teaching – Theory and Practice.