Meet our new faculty
From computational thinking and teacher quality to the impact of structural racism and research on Catholic schooling, five new faculty members bring their scholarship and practice training leaders and policymakers to the Lynch School.
Marina Bers, Ph.D.
Augustus Long Professor of Education
Formative Education
Director
DevTech Research Group
Marina Bers is widely recognized for her work on computational thinking, robotics, and technological tools for children to learn computer programming
A. Lin Goodwin (葛文林), Ed.D.
Thomas More Brennan Chair of Education
Teaching, Curriculum, and Society
A. Lin Goodwin, a globally renowned teacher-education expert, is the former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and the Evenden Professor of Education and vice dean at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Shaun Dougherty, Ed.D.
Professor
Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Shaun M. Dougherty is the inaugural director of the Catholic Education Research Initiative (CERI), a new endeavor that will focus on the problems of immediate concern facing Catholic schools and educators nationwide.
Earl Edwards, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Co-author of All Students Must Thrive: Transforming Schools to Combat Toxic Stressors and Cultivate Critical Wellness, Earl Edwards’s scholarship focuses on the impact of structural racism on public institutions, and how K–12 students whose families are homeless navigate schools. His practice centers on training leaders and policymakers to proactively create systems to address racial inequities.
Caitlyn Bolton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Formative Education
Caitlyn Bolton is a Lynch School assistant professor and an affiliate faculty with the Islamic Civilizations and Societies program in Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Her ethnographic and archival research in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula examines how Muslims employ Islamic knowledge and communal forms of agency to redefine sustainable development in Zanzibar, Tanzania.