UCI School of Education welcomes two new professors to faculty
IRVINE, Calif. (September 1, 2020) - The University of California, Irvine School of Education is pleased to welcome two new professors to its faculty – Dr. Gustavo Carlo and Dr. Julie Washington.
“Professor Carlo and Professor Washington are not only leading experts in their respective fields, but are also equity-focused academics who will carry forth our school’s mission of improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students of all backgrounds,” said Richard Arum, dean and professor of the School of Education. “I want to thank the university’s support in our recruitment of Professors Carlo and Washington, which began in fall 2019. In particular, we are thankful to Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Douglas M. Haynes and the Office of Inclusive Excellence, which provided Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Awards to both individuals.”
New in July 2020, the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Awards Program is a pilot program at UCI, funded through an Advancing Faculty Diversity grant from the UC Office of the President. The program aims to attract diverse ladder-rank faculty to recognize their deep scholarship on inclusive excellence and potential contributions at UCI.
Carlo and Washington will join an internationally recognized group of faculty, whose research interests are wide-ranging and draw on perspectives from neuroscience, economics, sociology, psychology, and more. In the 2018-19 fiscal year, the UCI School of Education faculty was awarded more than $36 million in grant money, more than $1 million per full-time faculty. As of June 2020, faculty served as principal investigators on grants whose combined total exceeded $96 million.
“Professor Carlo and Professor Washington are not only leading experts in their respective fields, but are also equity-focused academics who will carry forth our school’s mission of improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students of all backgrounds,” said Richard Arum, dean and professor of the School of Education. “I want to thank the university’s support in our recruitment of Professors Carlo and Washington, which began in fall 2019. In particular, we are thankful to Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Douglas M. Haynes and the Office of Inclusive Excellence, which provided Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Awards to both individuals.”
New in July 2020, the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Awards Program is a pilot program at UCI, funded through an Advancing Faculty Diversity grant from the UC Office of the President. The program aims to attract diverse ladder-rank faculty to recognize their deep scholarship on inclusive excellence and potential contributions at UCI.
Carlo and Washington will join an internationally recognized group of faculty, whose research interests are wide-ranging and draw on perspectives from neuroscience, economics, sociology, psychology, and more. In the 2018-19 fiscal year, the UCI School of Education faculty was awarded more than $36 million in grant money, more than $1 million per full-time faculty. As of June 2020, faculty served as principal investigators on grants whose combined total exceeded $96 million.
About Dr. Gustavo Carlo
Professor Carlo joins the UCI School of Education from the University of Missouri’s Department of Human Development and Family Science. There, he was the Millsap Endowed Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies, and co-director and founder of the university’s Center for Children and Families Across Cultures.
Carlo's primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally diverse children and adolescents. Many of his projects focus on U.S. ethnic/racial groups, including Latino/a youth and families. He has published more than 200 books, chapters, and research papers; received research grants from several agencies, including the NSF, NIH and Spencer Foundation; and serves on multiple journal editorial boards, including Child Development and Journal of Early Adolescence. In 2018, he received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. He currently serves as a member of the Society for Research in Child Development Governing Council, as associate editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Development, and as co-editor of the upcoming APA Handbook of Adolescent Development.
"I am pleased and honored to join the distinguished group of faculty at the UCI School of Education. The school has a storied reputation for excellence in scholarship, teaching, and work that improves the lives of families and children. I look forward to continuing this tradition. My work focuses on furthering our understanding of the multiple factors that influence culturally diverse children's positive developmental trajectories. This focus is timely and critical given the challenges that many children are facing, especially those from minority groups."
Carlo's primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally diverse children and adolescents. Many of his projects focus on U.S. ethnic/racial groups, including Latino/a youth and families. He has published more than 200 books, chapters, and research papers; received research grants from several agencies, including the NSF, NIH and Spencer Foundation; and serves on multiple journal editorial boards, including Child Development and Journal of Early Adolescence. In 2018, he received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. He currently serves as a member of the Society for Research in Child Development Governing Council, as associate editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Development, and as co-editor of the upcoming APA Handbook of Adolescent Development.
"I am pleased and honored to join the distinguished group of faculty at the UCI School of Education. The school has a storied reputation for excellence in scholarship, teaching, and work that improves the lives of families and children. I look forward to continuing this tradition. My work focuses on furthering our understanding of the multiple factors that influence culturally diverse children's positive developmental trajectories. This focus is timely and critical given the challenges that many children are facing, especially those from minority groups."
About Dr. Julie Washington
Professor Washington will join the UCI School of Education in January 2021 from Georgia State University’s College of Education and Human Development. There, she is chair and professor of the college’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is also co-director of the Center for Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language and Literacy - a unique Center focused on language and literacy research in high-risk, urban, and impaired populations.
Washington's research is focused on the intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty. In particular, her work focuses on understanding the role of cultural dialect in the identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American children and on disentangling the relationship between language production and comprehension on development of reading and early language skills for children growing up in poverty. Washington also directs, and will bring to UCI, a Learning Disabilities Research Innovation Hub, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The research hub is focused on improving early identification of reading disabilities in elementary school-aged African American children, and includes a focus on children, their families, teachers, and communities. In addition, Washington is an investigator on an NICHD-funded project focused on cultural language used by low-income African American fathers with their young children. This project is a collaborative effort between researchers at multiple institutions, including UCI.
“The UCI School of Education has a diverse and very distinguished mix of scholars who are contributing significantly to research in education. I look forward to joining this group and bringing into the mix research focused on the unique needs of African American children growing up in poverty. In the current social and political climate, the exceptional strengths and challenges facing these children and their families has heightened significance across the U.S.”
Washington's research is focused on the intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty. In particular, her work focuses on understanding the role of cultural dialect in the identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American children and on disentangling the relationship between language production and comprehension on development of reading and early language skills for children growing up in poverty. Washington also directs, and will bring to UCI, a Learning Disabilities Research Innovation Hub, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The research hub is focused on improving early identification of reading disabilities in elementary school-aged African American children, and includes a focus on children, their families, teachers, and communities. In addition, Washington is an investigator on an NICHD-funded project focused on cultural language used by low-income African American fathers with their young children. This project is a collaborative effort between researchers at multiple institutions, including UCI.
“The UCI School of Education has a diverse and very distinguished mix of scholars who are contributing significantly to research in education. I look forward to joining this group and bringing into the mix research focused on the unique needs of African American children growing up in poverty. In the current social and political climate, the exceptional strengths and challenges facing these children and their families has heightened significance across the U.S.”
