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Education

Higher Education Leadership

Valerie Smith

Valerie Smith

Label: President of Swarthmore College
  • Higher education leadership
  • African-American literature
  • Innovating the curriculum
  • Black culture, film & photography
  • Sustainability initiatives
Valerie Smith
Jim Bock '90

Jim Bock '90

Label: Vice President and Dean of Admissions
  • Higher education
  • College admissions
Jim Bock '90
Tomoko Sakomura

Tomoko Sakomura

Label: Provost and Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Art History
  • Japanese art history

  • Higher education

  • East Asian art

  • The relationship between word and image in the visual culture of medieval Japan

Tomoko Sakomura

Educational Studies

Edwin Mayorga

Edwin Mayorga

Label: Associate Professor of Educational Studies
  • Education policy

  • Social justice education

  • U.S. Latinx education

  • Urban politics & social movements

Edwin Mayorga
Joseph Derrick Nelson

Joseph Derrick Nelson

Label: Associate Professor of Educational Studies
  • Race, boyhood & education

  • Identity development

  • Single-sex education

  • Urban school reform

Joseph Derrick Nelson
Lisa Smulyan '76

Lisa Smulyan '76

Henry C. and Charlotte Turner Professor of Educational Studies

  • Gender & education

  • Comparative and international education

  • Gendered history & construction of the teaching profession

  • Educational communities, institutions & social contexts

Lisa Smulyan '76