Faculty

The Education Department faculty share all department chair duties. Please direct all chair communications to educ-chair@bates.edu

Patricia S. Buck

Associate Professor of Education

anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education

Anita S. Charles

Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Secondary Teacher Education

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

Bronwyn M. Sale

Lecturer in Education

arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instructional design, studio art, teacher education, teacher leadership

Mara C. Tieken

Associate Professor of Education

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

William J. Wallace

Visiting Lecturer in Education