New Faculty in 2025
Tenure System Faculty
Specialized Faculty
NEW FACULTY
SELECT FACULTY RECOGNITIONS
Rochelle Gutiérrez
National Academy of Education
In January 2025, department of Curriculum & Instruction Professor Rochelle Gutiérrez was elected to the National Academy of Education. She joins Education Professors Emeriti Richard C. Anderson (Educational Psychology) and James D. Anderson (Education Policy, Organization & Leadership) in representing the University of Illinois in the highly esteemed Academy. She becomes one of just 342 NAEd members, worldwide.
A professor of mathematics education, Gutiérrez has been University of Illinois faculty since 1996. Her work challenges deficit views of students who are Latine, Black, and Indigenous and suggests that mathematics teachers need much more than just content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, or knowledge of diverse students to be successful. She focuses on the import of considering identity, power, relationships, and environmental factors as they relate to mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning, and has coined the phrases “political conocimiento,” “rehumanizing mathematics,” and “living mathematx” to encourage the field to move beyond issues of access and achievement.
Michelle Perry
Richard C. Anderson Professor of Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning
This past May, Department of Educational Psychology Professor Michelle Perry was celebrated as the inaugural Richard C. Anderson Professor of Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning.
This named professorship is the brainchild of Professor Emeritus Richard (Dick) C. Anderson and his late wife Professor Jana Mason, and is the first-ever endowed professorship for faculty with their primary appointment in Educational Psychology.
Perry has been a part of the faculty in Educational Psychology since 1992. Her research explores instructional, social, cultural, and discursive contexts that support learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics concepts, ranging from a focus on how young children learn mathematics to supporting teachers to improve their teaching of mathematics.
Left to Right: Dean Chrystalla Mouza, Michelle Perry, and donor Dick Anderson
OCCRL
Presidential Citation for Excellence
The Office of Community College Research and Leadership was awarded the 2025 Presidential Citation for Excellence from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges. OCCRL has been a strategic initiative of Education at Illinois since 1989.
Left to Right: Council for the Study of Community Colleges President Xueli Wang, OCCRL Director Lorenzo Baber, and past OCCRL Directors Eboni Zamani-Gallaher and Debra Bragg.
Cherie Avent, assistant professor in Educational Psychology, was awarded the Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award from the American Evaluation Association, 2025
Catherine Corr, associate professor in Special Education, was honored with the Early Career Award from the Mixed Methods International Research Association, 2024
Don Hackmann, professor emeritus in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was honored with the J.D. Scribner Mentoring Award from the University Council for Educational Administration, 2024
Chang-kyu Kwon, assistant professor in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, received the Early Career Scholar Award from the Academy of Human Resource Development, 2025
Giselle Martinez Negrette, assistant professor in Curriculum & Instruction, was selected as a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow by the National Academy of Education, 2025-26
Melissa Morgan, professor in Educational Psychology, was named American Psychological Association Division 52 International Fellow, 2024
Stephanie Toliver, assistant professor in Curriculum & Instruction, was awarded the Early Career Achievement Award from the Literacy Research Association, 2024