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Faculty Spotlight
This fall 2007 the Graduate College of Education welcomed five new professors in the Curriculum & Instruction, Higher Education, and Leadership in Urban Schools departments. These new faculty bring a wealth of experience in research, teaching, and policy.
Trish Kress
Trish Kress teaches courses on the culture of urban schools and dissertation preparation in the Leadership in Education program. Her research uses video-microanalysis and critical ethnography to identify and analyze cultural production and identity construction of urban teachers as they integrate technology into their classrooms. As a published poet, Dr. Kress also has a great appreciation for creativity in scholarship.
Prior to coming to joining the LIUS faculty, Dr. Kress worked for the Discovery Institute at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, an organization dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning through professional development.
Dr. Kress received her Ph.D. Urban Education in 2006 from City University of New York
Samuel D. Museus
Samuel D. Museus teaches courses in qualitative and quantitative research methodology in the Higher Education program. His scholarship is focused on college access and success among racial/ethnic minority and low-income students. Specifically, his current research is aimed at understanding the role of institutional environments in underrepresented college student adjustment, engagement, and persistence.
Prior to joining the UMass faculty, he was a Research Assistant in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Museus is also an affiliated faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at UMass Boston.
Dr. Museus received his degree in Higher Education in 2006 from The Pennsylvania State University.
Patricia Paugh
Patricia Paugh is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Graduate College of Education. She came to higher education after twenty years as a first grade classroom teacher and reading specialist. Currently, as a teacher educator and researcher her primary commitment is to developing professional partnerships focused on equitable education for students living in poverty.
Over the past five years she has published several peer reviewed articles, co-authored a professional book for teachers, and has been the PI on two grants investigating the benefits of collaborative work between teachers, academic researchers, administrators, and university teacher education faculty on-site in urban public schools. Areas of expertise that focus her work include: critical literacy, early reading, teacher as researcher, and embedding professional practices in high stakes settings for struggling readers and students learning English as an additional language.
She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Boston College in 2002.