Jan 22, 2018 - Gerardo Blanco RamÃrez is an assistant professor of Higher. Education at the University of Massachusetts
Higher Education Program’s Educational Inquiry Colloquium Series Dr. Gerardo Blanco Ramírez: Monday, January 22nd ZEB 325: 10:30am-11:30am Performativity in Global Higher Education Research: Engaging Social Media and Visual Methods Gerardo Blanco Ramírez is an assistant professor of Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research explores the intersections of quality, branding and position taking in the context of global competition in higher education. This analysis incorporates critical perspectives of globalization and internationalization. Gerardo is an internationally engaged scholar; his research and teaching span across four continents. His work has been published in the Comparative Education Review, Higher Education, and Studies in Higher Education.
Dr. Susan Talburt: Thursday, February 15th ZEB 325: 10:30am-11:30am Institutional Feelings: Faculty, Universities, and Uses of Affect Theory Susan Talburt is Professor and Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her research focuses on two distinct areas: youth studies and youth sexualities; and what it means to live and work in universities. Her work in youth studies, educational studies, gender and sexuality studies, and affect theory has appeared in such journals as International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Higher Education, and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. She is the coeditor with Nancy Lesko of Keywords in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, and Knowledges and the editor of Youth Sexualities: Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics.
Dr. Bradley Davis: Monday, April 2nd ZEB 325: 10:30am-11:30am New Horizons in the Conveyance of Educational Research Findings Bradley W. Davis is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include public school administration, social justice leadership, leadership preparation, and education law. His work has appeared in various scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets, including American Educational Research Journal, Educational Administration Quarterly, and The Principals Legal Handbook. Dr. Davis is interested in innovative approaches to data visualization that allow otherwise complex quantitative findings to be readily-sharable between a variety stakeholders across academia, schooling, and policymaking.
