Faculty
Department Chair
María Ledesma, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Coordinator, Higher Education Leadership MA program
- maria.ledesma@sjsu.edu
- María's Spotify playlist
Faculty Directory
- Rebeca Burciaga, Ph.D.
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Professor
Faculty Executive Director, Institute for Emancipatory Education
Twitter: @qvo
Dr. Rebeca Burciaga is the Faculty Executive Director of the Institute for Emancipatory Education and a Professor of Educational Leadership & Chicana and Chicano Studies. Her research is nested in the nepantla (borderlands) of Education and Chicana/o Studies and focuses on the schooling experiences of Chicanx and Latinx students, families, communities, educators, and leaders. Her current project focuses on culturally sustaining approaches to school leadership. Dr. Burciaga’s areas of expertise include qualitative methodologies (testimonio & ethnography), critical theories (critical race theory & Chicana feminist theory), and critical pedagogies. Her research has been supported by highly competitive funding including the Spencer Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
Education
Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education with an emphasis in Race and Ethnic Studies, UCLA
Ed.M., Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
B.A., Latin American and Latina/o Studies, UC Santa Cruz
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- Liliana Castrellón, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Higher Education Leadership MA program
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- Arnold Danzig, PhD
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Professor
Arnold B. Danzig is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Education Policy and founding director of the Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership at San José State University. He is professor emeritus at Arizona State University and served in multiple leadership positions including division director and associate dean in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and associate director of the School Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He has authored, edited, and co-edited books, chapters, journal volumes, and journal articles on school leadership and education policy during his career in higher education.
Education
Ph.D., Education Policy, Planning, & Administration, University of Maryland College Park
M.A., Social & Cultural Foundations of Education, University of Maryland College Park
B.A., Political Science & Secondary Education
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- Veneice Guillory-Lacy, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor
veneice-guillory-lacy@sjsu.edu
Twitter: @VeneiceLacy
Dr. Lacy’s research focuses on amplifying the voices of women of color in K-12 educational leadership, promoting social justice leadership, emancipatory leadership, freedom dreaming that leads to transformative education, and centering race and gender. She uses critical qualitative methods, while drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), Critical Race Feminism (CRF), Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Indigenous epistemologies.
Education
Ph.D., Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Washington State University
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- John Jabagchourian, Ph.D.
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Lecturer
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies BA program
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Univ Of Cal-Santa Barbara, 2008
Master of Arts, Education, Univ Of Cal-Santa Barbara, California, United States, 2004
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, CSU-Fresno, California, United States, 2001
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Recent Faculty Highlights
Dr. Veneice Guillory-Lacy received the 2021-2022 Bonner Foundation Community-Engagement Course Development for Social Action Grant. The course will be developed to give current Master’s level teacher-leaders the opportunity to put theory into practice through collaborative approaches to deconstruct power systems, challenge inequitable practices and policies, and conduct research for a living case study.
Dr. Arnold Danzig co-published School Leader Internship: Developing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Your Leadership Experience. The book is available at routledge.com/9780367652036.
