Erica Buchanan-Rivera
Publications
Buchanan-Rivera, E. (2026, June 1). Not every teacher should be an administrator. Here’s how to decide. [Interviewed by Larry Ferlazzo]. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-not-every-teacher-should-be-an-administrator-heres-how-to-decide/2026/06

Conference Presentation
Buchanan-Rivera, Erica, Dennisha Murff, and Lisa Harton. 2025. "How Black Women Educators Change and Heal from Unjust Systems." Presentation accepted for the 53rd National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Research Dissemination
Parker, W. & Schwanke, J. (Hosts). (2026, May 27). Strategies for effective leadership w/Dr. Buchanan-Rivera. (Episode 502). [Audio podcast episode]. In Principals Matters podcast. https://williamdparker.com/2026/pmp502-strategies-for-effective-leadershipwith-dr-erica-buchanan-rivera/

Deanna Burgess
Conference Panelist
Burgess, Deanna. 2026. Panelist, Doctoral Program Brown Bag on Research and Conference Proposals, College of Education.

Anne Butler
Conference Presentation
Butler, Anne, Barbara Rieckhoff, Roxanne Owens, and Jordan Humphrey. 2026. "It's Time for a Hard Reset: Reimagining Teacher Preparation in the United States by Elevating Residencies." Featured panel presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ronald Chennault
Publications
Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge, eds. 2026. Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought. Rutgers University Press.

Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge. 2026. “Toward a History of Black Educational Thought.” In Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought, Ronald E. Chennault and Derrick P. Alridge, eds. Rutgers University Press.

Conference/Professional Presentations
Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge, co-chairs. 2026. “In the Spirit of Sankofa: Black Educational Thought in These Troubling Times.” Symposium, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.

Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge, co-chairs. 2026. “Liberation and Education: Historical Perspectives on Black Educational Thought.” Symposium, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.

Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge, “Toward a History of Black Educational Thought.”

Chennault, Ronald E. and Derrick P. Alridge, co-chairs. 2025. “Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought.” Panel, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Annual Meeting and Conference.

Amy Clark
Conference Participation
Clark, Amy. 2025. "RECE Graduate Research Circle." Quarterly Zoom dialogue of the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Graduate Research Circle, November 10, 2025.

Hilary Conklin
Publication
Conklin, Hilary G., and Molly W. Andolina. 2025. "Toward a More Empathic, Connected, and Humanizing Democracy: A Civics Curriculum Centering Listening and Storytelling." Theory & Research in Social Education 53(4): 504–537.

Editorial Board Appointment
Conklin, Hilary. 2026. Appointed to the editorial board of Democracy and Education.

Conference/Professional Presentation
Kapustka, Kathie, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. "Understanding and Supporting the Development of Asset-Based, Socially Transformative Teaching: Tracking Preservice Candidates' First Year." Paper presented at the Mid-Western Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 6, 2025.

Conklin, Hilary, Chris Worthman, Kathie Kapustka, Liliana Zecker, Marie Donovan, and Roxanne Owens. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.

Research Dissemination
Conklin, Hilary, and Molly Andolina. 2025. "Centering Listening and Empathy in Civics." Featured on the Visions of Education podcast, September 22, 2025.

Marie Donovan
Publications
Donovan, M.A. (2026). Check This Out: What ARe They Reading? Illinois Reading Council Journal, Vol. 54, No. 43 (Summer), pp. 65-71.

Conference/Professional Presentations
Donovan, Marie, Potenza, Antonia, and Marsh, Linda Ruhe. 2026. “ECACE: Policy and Guidance for Credit for Prior Learning.” IBHE Leadership Council Conference.

Donovan, Marie. 2026. “Credit for Prior Learning: Consortium-endorsed Policy and Guidance Themes.” Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity Advisory Council Summit.

Donovan, Marie. 2026. Presentations on DePaul's pilot implementation of the Illinois State Board of Education Literacy Self-Assessment Tool as part of the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan.

Donovan, Marie. 2025. “Early Childhood Credit for Prior Learning and Prior Learning Assessment: Policy and Practice Directions.” Higher Education Committee Conference, Illinois Gateways Professional Development Advisory Council.

Donovan, Marie, Chris Worthman, Kathie Kapustka, Liliana Zecker, Roxanne Owens, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.

Invited State/National/International Committee Memberships
Donovan, Marie. 2025-26. Illinois State Board of Education Task Force on Teacher Performance Assessment: Revising Policy and Practice.

Donovan, Marie. 2025-26. Illinois State Board of Education Working Group on the Elementary and Early Childhood Teacher Licensing Endorsement Grade Bands.

Donovan, Marie. 2025. Technical Assistance Community for Action Council, National Early Care and Education Workforce Center.

Donovan, Marie. 2025. Prior Learning Portability Agreements and Policies Global Task Force.

Awards
The Peace Award, Child’s Play Touring Theatre, Chicago, IL

Joby Gardner
Publication
Gardner, Joby, Thomas Noel, Rebecca E. Michel, S. Bigelow, Q. Hub, and M. Estrada. 2026. "Community-Based Justice Work to Prepare Urban Teachers, Counselors, and Educational Leaders." The Urban Review 58: 1–26.

Jason Goulah
Invited Visiting Professorship
Visiting Professor, Università di Bologna (University of Bologna, Italy), Department of Philosophy, invitation by UNESCO Chair of Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education and Director, International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education, 2026.

Book Publications
Goulah, Jason, Gonzalo Obelleiro, Jim Garrison. 2026. The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education. Peter Lang.

Chapter Publications
Goulah, Jason 2026. Daisaku Ikeda’s literary selfhood in the justice of becoming: Toward the second American renaissance and the dawn of a new global age. In A. Patterson (Ed.), Daisaku Ikeda, transnationalism, and American literature: Dialogues of the heart (pp. 113–128). Routledge.

Goulah, Jason 2025. Daisaku Ikeda and African American pragmatism: Race, identity, justice, and cosmopolitan becoming in the Dewey-Soka heritage. In J. Goulah, G. Obelleiro, & J. Garrison (Eds.). The Dewey-Soka heritage and the future of education (in Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education series) (pp. 133-164). Peter Lang.

Goulah, Jason, Gonzalo Obelleiro, & Jim Garrison. 2025. Introduction: The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education. In J. Goulah, G. Obelleiro, & J. Garrison (Eds.), The Dewey-Soka heritage and the future of education (in Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education series) (pp. 1-34). Peter Lang.

Blind-Reviewed Articles
Goulah, Jason & Riya Kartha. 2026. Wisdom and contemplative effort in Ikeda Daisaku’s philosophy of human education. Journal of Contemplative & Holistic Education, 3(2), Article 10: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/jche/vol3/iss2/10

Conference Presentations
Goulah, Jason. 2026. "AI and Normalizing a Nuclear Renaissance? Peace, Worthwhile Curriculum and Human Education in the Anthropocene." Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.

Goulah, Jason. 2026. “AI and normalizing a nuclear renaissance? Worthwhile curriculum and human education in the Anthropocene.” Paper presented at Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research, annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Los Angeles, CA.

Goulah, Jason. 2026. "Ecolinguistics in Second/World Language Education: Pursuing Solutions to the Anthropocene as a Wicked Problem." Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Goulah, Jason, and G. Pellizzato. 2026. "Human Education and the Poetic Spirit: An East-West Ecology in the Global Philosophy of Education." Paper presented at the Global Philosophy of Education Field-Launching Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Goulah, Jason. 2026. "Ecolinguistics in Second and World Language Education: A Review at the Dawn of the Anthropocene." Paper presented at the Language and Ecology in the Anthropocene Symposium, University of Alabama.

Goulah, Jason. 2025. "AI and Normalizing a Nuclear Renaissance? Worthwhile Curriculum and Human Education in the Anthropocene." Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

Goulah, Jason, and Gonzalo Obelleiro. 2025. "Ikeda Daisaku on Masculinity: Educational Considerations at Trump 2.0 and the New Right America." Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

Invited/Keynote Presentations
Goulah, Jason. 2026. "On Ikeda Daisaku's Perspectives in Education and Society." Featured symposium presentation, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Goulah, Jason. 2026. "Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship." Invited lecture, University of Bologna, Italy.

Goulah, Jason. 2026. "Human Education in the Digital Polycene: Ikeda Daisaku and (Post)Human Interdependencies." Keynote lecture, Sixth UM Global Citizenship Education Symposium, Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Goulah, Jason. 2025. “Global Citizenship and the Soka Heritage.” Invited keynote address for undergraduate faculty. Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA.

Goulah, Jason. 2025. “Introducing the Dewey-Soka Heritage.” In J. Goulah, G. Obelleiro, & J. Garrison, The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education, American Educational Research Association Dewey Studies SIG Summer Webinar.

Stephen Haymes
Lecture/Conference Coordination
Haymes, Stephen. 2026. Coordinator, 2026 Kopan Endowed Lecture featuring Catherine E. Walsh and the Phenomenology Roundtable, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Jordan Humphrey
Publication
Rieckhoff, Barb, Roxanne Owens, Jordan Humphrey, and Anne Butler. 2025. "Strengthening Teacher Residencies for Paraprofessionals in Special Education: Building Identity from Within." Journal for Teacher Education.

Conference Panelist
Humphrey, Jordan. 2026. Panelist, Doctoral Program Brown Bag on Research and Conference Proposals, College of Education.

Humphrey, Jordan, Barbara Rieckhoff, Roxanne Owens, and Anne Butler. 2026. "It's Time for a Hard Reset: Reimagining Teacher Preparation in the United States by Elevating Residencies." Featured panel presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tyanez Jones
Publications
Kothadiya, S., Holden, K.G., Cutshaw, G.P., Jones, T.C., Bittencourt de Almeida, C., Sirotiak, Z., Meyer, J.D., Bardhan, R., Kohut, M.L. (2026). A targeted metabolic intervention applied after vaccination shapes kinetics and durability of serum antibody accompanied by a distinct immunometabolic signature: pilot study. Brain,  Behavior, and Immunity - Health, 56, 1-18. https://doi.org/j.bbih.2026.101310

Conference Presentations
Jones, T.C., Bryan, A., and Taylor, E. "What do you see when you see me? Health Identity and Bias in Research and Clinical Practice". American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2026.

Jones, T.C., Tchoua, P., and Bryan, A. "Marketing to move: Health Communication Strategy to Encourage Physical Activity Across Diverse Populations." American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2026.

Sirotiak, Z., Moen, G., Jones, T.C., Holden, K.G., and Kohut, M.L. "A single session of exercise post-vaccination remodels antigen-specific CD8+ T cell response up to six months post-immunization". American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2026

Kathie Kapustka
Conference Presentation
Kapustka, Kathie, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. "Understanding and Supporting the Development of Asset-Based, Socially Transformative Teaching: Tracking Preservice Candidates' First Year." Paper presented at the Mid-Western Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 6, 2025.

Kapustka, Kathie, Chris Worthman, Liliana Zecker, Marie Donovan, Roxanne Owens, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.

Donna Kiel
Publication
Rieckhoff, Barbara S., Donna F. Kiel, and Leodis Scott. 2025. "Lessons Learned from Shadowing Principals." Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 9(2).

Megan Krone
Book Publication
Krone, Megan. 2026. Navigating the Dissertation Writing Process: Finding Your Path from First Drafts to Submission. Bloomsbury.

Becky (Rebecca) Michel
Publication
Cory, M., J. Rice, C. Chavis, J. Carter, B. Sanchez, R. Michel, D. L. DuBois, E. Chen, and K. Grant. 2025. "What We Bring to the Table: An Examination of the Developing Relationship Between Youth Mentees and Their College Mentors." Journal of Community Psychology 53(8).

Gardner, Joby, Thomas Noel, Rebecca E. Michel, S. Bigelow, Q. Hub, and M. Estrada. 2026. "Community-Based Justice Work to Prepare Urban Teachers, Counselors, and Educational Leaders." The Urban Review 58: 1–26.

Conference. Michel, Rebecca, Okenna Egwu, Heather Evans, and Summer McDaniel. 2025. Presentations at the 9th Annual Counseling and Psychotherapy Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Perera, D., Rebecca E. Michel, and N. E. Sherman. 2026. "Fostering Wellness: Building Authentic Connections for Managing Crisis Outcomes." Presentation at the Mediterranean Region Counselors Association Conference, Seville, Spain.

Barb Rieckhoff
Publication
Rieckhoff, Barb, Roxanne Owens, Jordan Humphrey, and Anne Butler. 2025. "Strengthening Teacher Residencies for Paraprofessionals in Special Education: Building Identity from Within." Journal for Teacher Education.

Rieckhoff, Barbara S., Donna F. Kiel, and Leodis Scott. 2025. "Lessons Learned from Shadowing Principals." Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 9(2).

Conference Presentation
Rieckhoff, Barbara, Roxanne Owens, Jordan Humphrey, and Anne Butler. 2026. "It's Time for a Hard Reset: Reimagining Teacher Preparation in the United States by Elevating Residencies." Featured panel presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sasha Novakovic
Publication
Novakovic, Alexandra, and Eva N. Patrikakou. 2025. "College Freshmen's Perceptions of Their High School College and Career Readiness Counseling." Journal of College Access 10(4): Article 4.

Gonzalo Obelleiro
Book Publication
Goulah, Jason, and Gonzalo Obelleiro. 2026. The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education. Peter Lang. 

Conference Presentation
Goulah, Jason, and Gonzalo Obelleiro. 2025. "Ikeda Daisaku on Masculinity: Educational Considerations at Trump 2.0 and the New Right America." Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Roxanne Owens
Publication
Butler, A., Rieckhoff, B., Owens, R., & Humphrey J. (2025). Strengthening teacher residencies for paraprofessionals in special education: Building identity from within. Journal of Teacher Education, (76) 5, https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251364265

Owens, Roxanne. 2025. Lead contributor and co-chair, American Library Association Services to Children Research Committee. Annotated Bibliography on the Science of Reading.

Owens, R.F. (2026). Speaking her truth: Sarah Aronson on Bella Abzug and developing a new generation of activists. The Language and Literacy Spectrum, (36) 1, Article 3. Available at: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/lls/vol36/iss1/3

Owens, R.F.  (Spring 2026). Dolly Parton’s imagination library: Inspiring a love of reading for thirty years, one package at a time. Children and Libraries: Journal of the Association for Library Services to Children, (24) 1, 38-39.  (American Library Association Publication).

Conference/Professional Presentation
Owens, Roxanne, Chris Worthman, Kathie Kapustka, Liliana Zecker, Marie Donovan, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.

Conference Panelist
Owens, Roxanne. 2026. Panelist, Doctoral Program Brown Bag on Research and Conference Proposals, College of Education.
Editorial Publication

Owens, Roxanne, ed. 2025. Illinois Reading Council Journal. Fall Issue. Illinois Reading Council.

Owens, Roxanne. 2026. Editor. Illinois Reading Council Journal, Winter Issue.

Sunny Park-Johnson
Book Chapter
Park-Johnson, Sunny, and Sarah J. Shin. 2025. "Language Analysis Assignments in TESOL and Applied Linguistics." In Completing Assignments in TESOL and Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide. Routledge.

Conference Presentation
Park-Johnson, Sunny. 2025. "I Don't Wanna Go to Korean School: Impact of Community Language Schools on Heritage Korean Youth Identities and Language." Poster presented at the NHLRC Sixteenth Heritage Language Research Institute.

Eva Patrikakou
Publication
Novakovic, Alexandra, and Eva N. Patrikakou. 2025. "College Freshmen's Perceptions of Their High School College and Career Readiness Counseling." Journal of College Access 10(4): Article 4.

Leodis Scott
Publication
Rieckhoff, Barbara S., Donna F. Kiel, and Leodis Scott. 2025. "Lessons Learned from Shadowing Principals." Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 9(2).

Sonia Soltero
Publications
Soltero, S. (2026). Cultivating linguistically and culturally responsive dual language ecosystems. Keynote speaker. MNPS Spark Conference. Nashville, TN

Soltero, S. (2026). Dual language building blocks: Design and implementation for long-term success. Keynote Speaker, Dual Language Leadership Institute, Chicago Public Schools.

Soltero, S. (2026). A biliteracy blueprint for success: Culturally embedded programmatic pathways and pedagogical practices. National Committee on Effective Literacy Summit.

Soltero, S. (2025). Leaders as architects in dual language: Leading with purpose, building with vision. Keynote Speaker. La Cosecha Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM

Soltero, S. (2025). Powering the future and unlocking dual language education as a catalyst for equity and social justice. Keynote Speaker, Dual Language Institute. Washington State Association for Bilingual Education Conference, Seattle, WA

Soltero, S., Olsen, L., Martinez, M. & Herrera, S. (2025). Early childhood education dual language learner literacy development and implications of the science of reading. Featured Panel, California Association of Bilingual Education Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.

Soltero, S. (2025). Dual language building blocks: Design and implementation for long-term success. Keynote Speaker, Chicago Public Schools Dual Language Conference, IL

Soltero, S. (February 2025). A dual language biliteracy blueprint: Culturally and linguistically responsive principles and practices. Keynote Speaker, Oregon Association for Bilingual Education Conference, Portland, OR

Kristin Whyte
Publications
Graue, M. E., and Kristin Whyte. 2026. "The Qualities of Qualitative Research." International Journal of Early Childhood Education 32: 1–23.

Conference Presentations
Whyte, K.L. (April 2026). “Distinctive Pictures of Practice in a Play-Based Prekindergarten.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Chris Worthman
Conference/Professional Presentation
Worthman, Chris, Kathie Kapustka, Liliana Zecker, Marie Donovan, Roxanne Owens, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.

Liliana Zecker
Conference/Professional Presentation
Zecker, Liliana, Chris Worthman, Kathie Kapustka, Marie Donovan, Roxanne Owens, and Hilary Conklin. 2025. Participant in the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan Pilot.