Education Leadership, Foundations & Policy
What We Do
We provide education and training programs that represent a group of specialty areas that contribute to the underpinnings of quality educational practice at all levels, including research, human development, foundations of education, leadership, higher education, and policy.
EDLF serves educators both on-grounds and off-grounds through a variety of offerings. Explore our academic programs, research center affiliations and new featuring our faculty.
EDLF stands with President Ryan | May 1, 2025
The Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy stands with UVA President James Ryan and over two hundred other college and university presidents in opposing unprecedented government overreach and political interference in American higher education. As members of a public university and in service of democracy and the public good, we express our bedrock commitment (1) to academic and intellectual freedom, (2) to free and open inquiry, (3) to our core missions of teaching and research in pursuit of truth, (4) to the autonomy of colleges and universities to conduct their affairs free of undue government intrusion and the coercive use of public funding, and (5) to constructive engagement that will improve our institutions and serve our republic.
Academic Programs
View our top-ranked program offerings to find a degree with boundless future impact.
Education Leadership, Foundations & Policy Faculty
Derrick P. Alridge
- Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education
Allison Atteberry
- Associate Professor of Education & Public Policy
- Director, EdPolicyWorks
Brendan Bartanen
- Assistant Professor
Daphna Bassok
- Professor of Education and Public Policy
- Associate Director, EdPolicyWorks
Michelle Beavers
- Associate Professor
Bethany A. Bell
- Associate Professor
Kelli Bird
- Research Assistant Professor
Margaret (Peg) R. Burchinal
- Research Professor
Benjamin L. Castleman
- Newton and Rita Meyers Associate Professor in the Economics of Education
Katrina Debnam
- Associate Professor
Jamie DeCoster
- Research Associate Professor
Nancy L. Deutsch
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Linda K. Bunker Professor of Education
- Director, Youth-Nex
Sara Dexter
- Associate Professor
David Eddy-Spicer
- Professor
Shereen El Mallah
- Research Assistant Professor
Tanya Evans
- Associate Professor
Juan C. Garibay
- Associate Professor
Walter F. Heinecke
- Associate Professor
Diane M. Hoffman
- Associate Professor
Michael F. Hull
- Assistant Professor
Chris S. Hulleman
- Research Professor of Education and Public Policy
Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas
- Professor of Education
Lieny Jeon
- Jane Batten Bicentennial Associate Professor
Jamie J. Jirout
- Associate Professor
Timothy R. Konold
- Professor
- Research, Statistics, & Evaluation Program Director
Traci Kutaka
- Research Assistant Professor
Alan Leffers
- Assistant Professor
Coby V. Meyers
- Professor
- Chief of Research, Partnership for Leaders in Education
Luke C. Miller
- Research Associate Professor
Sandra P. Mitchell
- Senior Instructor of Education
- Faculty Director, SCOPE (Statewide Communities of Practice for Excellence)
Natalia Palacios
- Associate Professor
Benjamin G.S. Paxton
- Instructor
Brian Pusser
- Associate Professor
Annie Rappeport
- Instructor
- Academic Program Officer
Chad S. Ratliff
- Lecturer
Sara Rimm-Kaufman
- Chair, Department of Education Leadership, Foundations and Policy
- Commonwealth Professor of Education
Stewart D. Roberson
- Professor
Alexa Rodriguez
- Assistant Professor of Education
Josipa Roksa
- Professor
Beth Schueler
- Associate Professor
Sharon E. Shaffer
- Instructor
Ashlee Lester Sjogren
- Research Assistant Professor
Jim Soland
- Associate Professor
Jaime Stacy
- Associate Professor
Gerald D. Starsia
- Associate Professor (Retired)
Christian L. Steinmetz
- Associate Professor
Beverly Sweeney
- Assistant Professor of Education
Justin B. Thompson
- Senior Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer
Yoi Tibbetts
- Research Assistant Professor
Carol Ann Tomlinson
- William Clay Parrish Professor Emerita
Amy Nga T. Trang
- Lecturer of Education, Adjunct Faculty
Pamela D. Tucker
- Professor Emerita
Khara Turnbull
- Research Assistant Professor
Sarah E. Turner
- University Professor of Economics & Education
Rachel L. Wahl
- Associate Professor
Kristina C. Webber
- Associate Professor
Jessica E. Whittaker
- Research Associate Professor
- Director of Birth to Eight Initiatives
Vivian Wong
- Associate Professor
James H. Wyckoff
- Professor Emeritus
- Memorial Professor of Education
Education Leadership, Foundations & Policy Staff
Jane M. Cook
- Outreach Assistant
Isabelle Fares
- Data Scientist, Research
Kelly Garrett
- VEST Program Coordinator
Abigail Krissinger
- Research Specialist
Annie Rappeport
- Instructor
- Academic Program Officer
Marcy Reedy
- EDLF Department Administrator
Alicia Rudie
- Senior Department Finance Manager
Affiliated Centers & Labs
Department News
UVA School of Education and Human Development Launches Enhanced M.Ed. in Administration & Supervision Program
With reduced credit hours and multiple pathways to a degree, the updated program offers more flexibility for aspiring PK-12 school leaders.
Contact Us
Office Location
- Bavaro Hall 222
Mailing Address
417 Emmett Street S
Charlottesville, VA 22903