Christian Anderson, Ph.D.
Christian Anderson is an Associate Professor of higher education. His primary research focus is on the history of higher education and the organization and governance of higher education (particularly the role of faculty).
Our program faculty include:
Michelle Bryan, Ph.D.
Michelle Bryan is an Associate Professor in the Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry department at the college of Education and the Associate Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of South Carolina.
Kathleen Cunningham, Ph.D.
Kathleen Mary Winn Cunningham is an assistant professor of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry in the Wardlaw College of Education at the University of South Carolina. Prior to her doctoral studies at the University of Iowa, she was a middle school teacher in Wisconsin. After earning her Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies, she served as a postdoctoral research associate for the University Council for Educational Administration at the University of Virginia.
Toby Jenkins-Henry, Ph.D.
Toby Jenkins-Henry is an Associate Professor of Higher Education. Her work focuses on the use of culture as a politic of social survival, a tool of social change, and a transformative space of creative and critical pedagogy. She is considered a national expert on cultural inclusion and the student experience in higher education focusing particularly on the innovation and transformation of university cultural centers.
Jamil D. Johnson, Ph.D.
Jamil D. Johnson brings forth an extensive background in student affairs administration, teaching, mentoring, advising, and supporting undergraduate and graduate students.
David G. Martinez, Ph.D.
Davíd G. Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. He has worked extensively in traditionally marginalized, LatinX, and Indigenous communities as an advocate, researcher, and educator. Prior to pursuing his professorship, Davíd was an educational administrator in northern Illinois, and a middle school and high school educator.
Peter Moyi, Ph.D.
Peter Moyi is an Associate Professor at the College of Education and the chair of the department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry,
Spencer Platt, Ph.D.
Spencer Platt is an Associate Professor in the department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry.
Doyle Stevick, Ph.D.
During the mid-late 1990s, Stevick was pursuing a doctorate in Greek and Latin literature and spending his summers excavating ancient sites in the Mediterranean, spurred in part by the impact of studying abroad in Greece, when encounters with racist extremism drove him to explore the power of education to undermine prejudice and foster pro-social dispositions. How could schooling support positive institutional transformations, like Brown v. Board of Education or the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Chas Thompson, Ph.D.
Chas Thompson's (he/him/his) research is centered around minoritized college students’ experiences at U.S. institutions of higher education, with a particular focus on college students with minoritized sexual and gender identities.
Henry Tran, MPA, SHRM-CP, PHR, Ph.D.
Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry who studies issues related to education human resources (HR) and finance. He has published numerous articles on the topics, including several with students.
Christina W. Yao, Ph.D.
Christina W. Yao, is a qualitative researcher who primarily studies undergraduate and graduate student engagement and learning in higher education.