Global & Comparative Education Research

Rebecca Tarlau (Stanford Graduate School of Education)

• Rebecca Tarlau is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford Graduate School of Education. Dr. Tarlau was formerly Associate Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University, where she was the co-founder of the Penn State Consortium for Social Movements and Education Researchand Practice. Her ethnographic research agenda has four broad areas of focus: (1) theories of the state and state-society relations; (2) social movements and popular education, labor education, and critical pedagogy; (3) Latin American education and development; and (4) teachers’ unions, teacher activism, and teachers’ work.

Julia Lerch (UC Irvine)

• Julia Lerch is an Assistant Professor at UC Irvine in the Department of Sociology. She is a comparative education scholar working at the intersections of the sociology of education, global and transnational sociology, and cultural sociology. Her work draws on various educational sites – education in humanitarian crises, school curricula, and universities – to unpack evolving cultural understandings of (higher) education and the social forces that shape them.  She is particularly interested in understanding large-scale (and often global) shifts in the kinds of social goals that schools and universities are expected to advance.

Jose Eos Trinidad (UC  Berkeley)

• Jose Eos Trinidad is an Assistant Professor in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster of the University of California Berkeley School of Education. He is a sociologist with expertise in the study of organizations outside schools and the study of schools as organizations. He received his Joint PhD in Sociology and ComparativeHuman Development from The University of Chicago. His researchexplores how organizations affect school improvement and inequalities, education policy, and institutional change. Conceptually, he focuses on organizational networks and institutional theory. Substantively, he studies policies on organizational data use, teacher wellbeing, and student-centered learning. Methodologically, he integrates quantitative causal inference and qualitative interview approaches to understand education policy and systems holistically.

Vinicius Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro State University)

• Ferreira is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris). He is also an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique de l'EHESS. and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the IUAES Commission on Migration, Co-Chair of the WCAA Task Force on Precarity, and a Member of the Editorial Committee of the Brazilian Anthropological Association. Additionally, he coordinates the South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS). His academic contributions extend to international journals like American Anthropologist, Indian Anthropologist, and Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. Prior to his current position, he taught Sociology at Sorbonne Université and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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Travis Candieas (UC Santa Barbara)

• Travis Candieas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Educationat the University of California, Santa Barbara Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Candieas's research focuses on education policy and institutional quality with an emphasis in quantitative methods in the social sciences. His current projects include evaluating education and workforce development programs, longitudinal outcomes of intervention programs, and student sense of belonging internationally across institutions of higher education. His academic work has been presented at the American Evaluation Association annual conference, and his technical reports have been used for regional planning and implementation of California public policy initiatives.