Our faculty have multi-disciplinary teaching and research expertise in a wide range of fields, including but not limited to:

Elizabeth Buckner
Higher education, globalization and neoliberalism; human development; higher education privatization; comparative, international and development education; Middle East and North Africa


Ruth Childs
Assessment design and equity; admissions processes; access to post-secondary education; evaluation systems; and survey research


Daniel Corral
Higher education policy and finance;  postsecondary access and persistence of racially minoritized students and immigrant students; minority-serving institutions; quantitative methods


Ruth Hayhoe
Comparative higher education and international academic relations; dialogue across civilizations; comparative education theory; Chinese and East Asian higher education


Katharine Janzen
Curriculum theory, design and development; teaching and learning strategies; education research; educational leadership and change


Glen Jones
Higher education policy and politics in Canada; post-secondary systems and governance; changing academic profession


Grace Karram Stephenson
Academic profession; student experience; international and comparative education; educational administration; global knowledge economy


Eric Lavigne
Higher education administration and management; organizational leadership, decision-making, and change; administrators’ recruitment, careers, and performance


Creso Sa (LHAE Graduate Chair)
Science and technology policy; academic organization and strategy; universities, innovation and economic development; entrepreneurship and technology transfer; research and the policy process


Stephanie Waterman (Program Coordinator)
Indigenous college student experience; post-secondary student affairs and services; Indigenous student affairs; Indigenous methodologies; critical race theory


Leesa Wheelahan
Community college; politics in higher education; lifelong learning and vocational education; tertiary education policy; marketization and privatization; pathways in education; sociology of knowledge; college teacher preparation; education and labour markets

Adjunct Faculty

Jane Knight
International dimension of higher education at the institutional, national, regional and international level; knowledge diplomacy; regionalization; comparative analysis of national and IHE policies, international programs and providers


Gavin Moodie
Relations between college and university education in developed countries; relations between postsecondary education and work; postsecondary education policy