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Faculty List


Linda Adams
Professor of Education
B.S., Albany State College, 1974; M.Ed., Georgia State University, 1977; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1983.


Kathy A. Arnett
Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Ohio State University, 1971; M.S., The University of Akron, Ohio, 1980; Ed.S., Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1988, 1993.

Sharon M. Augustine
Instructor of Education
B.A., Agnes Scott College, 1990; M.Ed., Georgia College and State University, 1993.

Mary Kay Bacallao
Professor of Education
B.A., Miami Christian College, 1989; M.S., Ed.S., Ed.D., Florida Atlantic University, 1991, 1994, 1996.


Joseph L. Balloun
Professor of Education
B.S., M.S., Iowa State University, 1963, 1965; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1971.


Richard H. Binkney

Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Oglethorpe University, 1968; M.A.T., Ed.S., Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1975, 1980, 1986.

Olivia M. Boggs
Associate Professor of Education
B.S., Hampton University, 1968; M.Ed., boston University, 1970; Ed.D., Harvard University. 1978.

Ashley Paige Briandi

Visiting Instructor of Education

B.S., University of North Carolina, 1991; M.Ed. Mercer University, 2005

Sherah B. Carr  
Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Manafield State College, 1972; M.S. Florida State University, 1975; Ph.D. Georgia State University, 1988.

Jacquelyn Culpepper  
Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., Baylor University, 1967; M.Ed., University of Louisville, 1986; Ph.D.,The University of Georgia, 2002.

Brent Daigle

Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2002; M.Ed., Northwestern State University, 2004; Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2008

Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., University of Southern Mississippi, 1975; M.Ed., William Carey College, 1987; Ed.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1995.

Macklin D. Duggins  
Associate Professor of Education/Chair of Atlanta Teacher Education
B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1978, 1981, 1991.

Penny L. Elkins
Associate Dean/Professor of Education/Chair of Educational Leadership
B.A., M.Ed., Mercer University, 1990, 1992; Ed.S., Georgia College, 1995; Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1998.

Sammy L. Felton
Assistant Professor of Education
B.S.E., Delta State University, 1978; M.Ed., Memphis State University, 1982; Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 1995.

Jianhua Feng
Associate Professor of Education
B.Ed., Huazhong Normal University, 1985; M.S., Wheelock College, 1988; Ed.D., University of Memphis, 1992.

John H. Finley, Jr.

Assistant Professor of Education

B.A., Miles College, 1964; M.S., Tuskegee University, 1967; Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1977.


Catherine M. Gardner
Professor of Education/Chair of Teacher Education (Douglas/Henry Counties) 
B.S., M.Ed., East Carolina University, 1972, 1974; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992.

Carolyn R. Garvin  
Director of Field Placement/Certification  and Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., David Lipscomb College, 1961; M.Ed., Mercer University, 1978.

Allison Cobb Gilmore  
Associate Dean/Professor of Education
B.A., University of West Florida, 1972; M.Ed., Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1981, 1985.

Ismail S. Gyagenda  
Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., Makerere University, 1979; M.Ed., Yarmouk University, 1987; M.A., The University of the District of Columbia, 1989; Ph.D., Emory University, 1999.

Anthony Harris
Professor of Education
B.A., M.A., University of Southern Mississippi, 1974, 1976; Ed.D., Texas A & M University, 1982.

Harriet Anne Hathaway  
Professor of Education
B.A., M.L.S., Ed.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1971, 1978, 1983.

J. Kevin Jenkins  
Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., Mercer University, 1989; M.Ed., Ed.S, Ed.D., The University of Georgia, 1996, 1997, 1999.

Jude R. Johnson
Associate Professor of Education
B.S., Savannah State University, 1988; M.Ed., Mercer University, 1995; Ph.D. Emory University, 2002.

William Otis Lacefield, III
Associate Professor of Education
B.A., Mercer University, 1989; M.Ed., University of Southern Mississippi, 1993; Ed.S., Mercer University, 1995; Ed.D., Georgia Southern University, 1999.

Leonard E. Lancette 
Associate Professor of Education
B.S., University of Minnesota, 1971; M.Ed., Ed.S., Georgia State University, 1977, 1984; Ed.D., Nova Southeastern University, 1995.

Robert L. Lawrence, IV

Assistant Professor of Education

B.A., Centre College of Kentucky, 1971; M.S., University of Kentucky, 1977; M.Ed., Ed.S., Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1988, 1990, 1997

Dana H. Lilly
Professor of Education
B.A., M.A., University of West Florida, 1974, 1985; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1989.


Susan Malone

Associate Dean/Associate Professor of Education

B.A., University of South Alabama, 1975; M.Ed., Ed.D., Vanderbilt University, 1985, 1994.

 

Carl R. Martray
Dean and Scarborough Professor of Education
B.A. Fairmont State College, 1965; M.A., Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1969, 1971.

 

Margaret McCall
Instructor of Education
B.S., Georgia State University, 1972; M.Ed., Georgia State University, 1974.
 

Karen H. Michael
Associate Professor of Education
B.S., Georgia Southern University, 1991; M.S., North Georgia College, 1995; Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001.

Margaret Rainey Morris   
Professor of Education/Chair of Teacher Education (Macon/Eastman)
B.A., Shorter College, 1966; M.Ed., North Georgia College, 1980; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1993.

Mary Hall O'Phelan
Associate Professor of Education
B.A., University of Missouri, 1967; M.Ed., University of Miami, 1978; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1994.

Emilie Warner Paille
Director of Field Experience, Atlanta Campus/Associate Professor of Education
B.S., Georgia State University, 1973; M.Ed., Geogia State University, 1978; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1991.
 

John Payne

Visiting Assistant Professor of Education

B.S., The University of Georgia, 1967; M.A.T., Emory University, 1973; Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1981

Kelly Reffitt

Assistant Professor of Education

B.A., University of Georgia, 1992; M.Ed., Mercer University, 2000; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2008


debra leigh walls rosenstein

Associate Professor of Education

B.S., North Carolina State University, 1975; M.S., University of Tennessee, 1978; Ed.D., Virginia Institute of Technology, 1982.

Peter A. Ross
Associate Professor of Education
B.A., New College, 1975; M.A., Ed.S. University of South Florida, 1982, 1983; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1988.

Wynnetta Scott-Simmons 
Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Bennett College, 1981; M.Ed., Ed.S., Mercer University, 2002, 2003.

Bruce E. Sliger   
Professor of Education
B.S., M.A., Ed.S., Tennessee Technological University, 1977, 1979, 1982; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1990.

Albert A. Stramiello
Professor of Education
B.S., Clarion State College, 1970; M.Ed., Slippery Rock State College, 1973; Ed.D., University of North Colorado, 1978.

Assistant Professor of Education
B.S., Medical College of Georgia, 1983; M.Ed., Georgia State University, 1997; Ed.S., State University of West Georgia, 2002; Ed.D., Georgia Southern University, 2005.
 
Richard Swindle
Professor of Education
B.A., Samford University, 1969; M.Ed., University of Montevallo, 1978; Ph.D., Emory University, 1995.
 

Sylvia Y. Taylor

Assistant Professor of Education

B.S., M.S., Florida State University, 1998, 2000; Ph.D., Emory University, 2007.


Sue Quillian Thrasher

Assistant Professor of Education

B.A., University of Georgia, 1972; M.Ed., Georgia State University, 1980; Ed.S., Gallaudet University, 1988; Ed.D., University of North Carolina, 1999.

 

Paige Tompkins

Associate Professor of Education
B.S., Troy State University, 1984; B.S., Auburn University, 1987; M.Ed., Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 1993, 1995.

Victor Verdi
Clinical Instructor of Educational Leadership
B.S., Presbyterian College, 1960; M.A., Western Carolina University, 1967; Ed.S., University of Georgia, 1976.

Clemmie B. Whatley
Assistant Professor of Education

B.S., Clark College, 1971; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1973; Ed.S., State University of West Georgia, 1999; Ph.D., Emory University, 2003


Stephen W. Wills

Assistant Professor of Education

B.S., Auburn University, 1985; M.A., Georgia College and State University, 1994; Ph.D., University of Alabama, 2007.

 

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