Educational Studies
Our people
Department Chair
- 335 Morris Hall
- hlinville@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8142
Specialty areas:
Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.
Associate Department Chair
- 185B Morris Hall
- jcarlson@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8140
Specialty areas:
Social Foundations of Education; Multicultural Education; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy; Literacy Studies
Academic Department Associate
Educational Studies Faculty
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- dblock@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6894
Specialty areas:
Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities/Cross-Categorical
ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder
Mental Health and Resiliency in Education
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 300F Morris Hall
- tbosch@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8131
Specialty areas:
Early Childhood Education
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- mburke@uwlax.edu
- Associate Professor
- 365B Morris Hall
- wchen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8144
Specialty areas:
K-8 Literacy, Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, & Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
- Assistant Professor
- 300C Morris Hall
- rdefino@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5403
Specialty areas:
Math Education
Teacher Education
Elementary Teaching
- Assistant Professor
- 300D Morris Hall
- ahardy@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8139
Specialty areas:
Early childhood special education, extensive support needs, trauma-informed education for students with disabilities
- Professor
- 365A Morris Hall
- yiwai@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5407
Specialty areas:
literacy, teacher education, TESOL, children's literature, self-efficacy
- Professor
- 300B Morris Hall
- lkabashi@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8143
Specialty areas:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Video-Based Instruction
- Single Subject Research Design
- Multiple Baseline Design
- Across Behaviors, Across Participants, Across Settings
- A-B- and A-B-A-B Design
- Parallel Design
- Multiple Baseline Design
- Computer Skills
- Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint
- Learning Management Systems
- D2L, BlackBoard
- Technology
- GoReact, TeachLive, Animoto, VoiceThread, iMovie, EdPuzzle, Kahoot, Padlet, Wix, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast, YouTube Channel, PowToon, Pear Deck, Glogster, etc.
- Assistant Professor
- 340A Morris Hall
- vkrage@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8136
Specialty areas:
Early childhood education, family engagement in education, impact of poverty on development and learning.
- Associate Professor
- Morris Hall
- alein@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Special Education, universal design for learning, socio-emotional learning
- Associate Professor
- 325B Morris Hall
- mmcparker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8152
Specialty areas:
Social Studies Education
Multicultural Education
Mid-Level Education
- Assistant Professor
- 240B Morris Hall
- emiller3@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8657
- Assistant Professor
- Morris Hall
- jmossholder@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Mental Health Literacy, Young Adult/Adolescent Development, Young Adult/Adolescent Mental Health, Servant Leadership, Middle Level Education
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- jnovak@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
American Sign Language
Interpreting/Translation
Linguistics
Language Education
- Assistant Professor
- Morris Hall
- mpfundheller@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
- Special Education
- Early Childhood Special Education
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Educational Sustainability
- Equity and Inclusion in Education
- Lecturer
- UW La Crosse
- cpeterson@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8149
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 240C Morris Hall
- jpierce@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6566
Specialty areas:
Global education; multilingual and multicultural education; TESOL; English as a world language; grammar and pronunciation; cultural identities and language.
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- mrabenn@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Online learning, teacher professional development, literacy, children's literature, environmental justice, and rural education.
- Assistant Professor
- 160C Morris Hall
- croberts@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8146
- Assistant Professor
- 160B Morris Hall
- drueter@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5408
Specialty areas:
Early Childhood and Elementary Literacy
- Assistant Professor
- Morris Hall
- jspurlock@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Early Science Teaching Methods
Intersectional Equity in Elementary Education
Research in Partnership with Classroom Communities
- Assistant Professor
- 160D Morris Hall
- jviotto@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Systems to support students with disabilities in the general education classroom.
Emeritus Members
- Burt Altman, Professor, member 1965-1993
- Barbara Chaney, Assistant Professor, member 1988-2009
- Ralph Cozad, member 1975-1999
- Barb Gander, Senior Lecturer, member 2003-2019
- Kent Koppelman, Professor, member 1979-2007
- Robert Krajewski, Professor, member 1989-2013
- Robert Richardson, Associate Professor, member 1990-2009
- Stuart Robertshaw, member 1974-1998
- Joyce Shanks, Associate Professor, member 1990-2018
- Greg Walsko, Associate Professor, member 1988-2013
- Gary Willhite, Associate Professor, member 2008-2020
- Ann Epstein, Professor, member 2010-2025