2024-2025 Visiting Professors
Dr. Jennifer Alford
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Education and Professional Studies and Deputy Director of the Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University.
Dr. Alfred Tatum
Professor in the School of Education at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Talk: Shattering Literacy Hierarchies: No More Reading at the Bottom of the Well
2019-2020 Visiting Professors
Dr. David Caldwell
Program Director for the Master of Education, Master of Education (TESOL) Graduate
Diploma in Educational Studies (Digital Learning) and Lecturer in English Language
and Literacy in the School of Education at the University of South Australia.
Talk: "Packaging with Purpose: A Textual Analysis of Effective Doctoral Writing"
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Dr. Pauline Harris
The Lillian de Lissa Chair in Early Childhood at University of South Australia School
of Education
Talk: In Dialogue with Children: Engaging Children’s Voices in Literacy Programs
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Talk: Flying Peas & Mashed Potato, and the Meaning of Life: Crafting a Coherent Line
of Scholarship as a University Professor
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2018 Visiting Professors
Dr. Francois Victor Tochon
Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk: Deep Education: Student Autonomy in Open Programs
Dr. Garth Stahl
Senior Lecturer at University of South Australia School of Education
Talk: Ethnography of a Neoliberal School:Building Cultures of Success
2017 Visiting Professors
Dr. Mark Helmsing
Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Secondary Education
at the University of Wyoming
Talk: A Discussion on Historical Interpretation - Andrew Peterson & Mark Helmsing
Dr. Andrew Peterson
Professor of Civic and Moral Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and
Adjunct Professor of Education at University of South Australia
Why Compassion and Humility Matter for Education Today
2017 Visiting Professors
Dr. Jennifer Reichenberg
Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Medaille College - Buffalo, NY
Dr. Patricia Edwards
Professor, Michigan State University
Talk: Learning, Listening, Respecting, Navigating: An African American Woman's Success
in Majority Institutions
2016-2017 Visiting Professors
Dr. Robyn Henderson
Associate Professor and Doctoral Programs Coordinator at University of Southern Queensland
Talk: Managing literacy teaching and learning for ‘new’ and mobile students.
Presentation Slides | References
Dr. Judith Green
Professor Emeritus, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Career Building As A Collective (PowerPoint)
2016 Visiting Professors
Dr. Mary McVee
Associate Professor of Literacy Education and Director of CLaRI (Center for Literacy
and Reading Instruction) in the Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo/SUNY
Teacher education and literacy research (McVee)
Dr. Gwen McMillon
Associate professor of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University
Talk: Crossing Borders and Building Bridges between Church and School Learning Environments
for African American Students
