Assistant Professor

State University of New York College at Cortland

Rhiannon Maton, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Foundations and Social Advocacy department in the School of Education at State University of New York College at Cortland. As a qualitative educational researcher, her research focuses on how educators and schools can better support students facing systemic social and economic marginalization. Her expertise ranges from issues of teacher learning and leadership; grassroots organizing and mobilization; innovative school issues and models; activist educators; and race, class, gender and sexuality issues in education. Dr. Maton is currently the elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Teachers’ Work/Teachers Unions Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, and has published her research in a range of books and journals, including Curriculum Inquiry, Critical Education, and Critical Studies in Education.