Newly Promoted
Pierre Faller, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Organization & Leadership, has taught at TC as a lecturer since 2017 and serves as the director of Adult Education Guided Intensive Study (AEGIS), a highly selective, fast-track Ed.D. cohort program. Faller’s research examines the role of individual and team reflection in workplace learning and its applications in coaching, facilitation, and strategy development.
Faller is also a convenor for European Society of Research on the Education of Adults and an editorial board member of journals Learning Organization and Reflective Practice. In addition to his doctorate from TC, he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
Jin Kuwata, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics, Science & Technology, specializes in the design of learning experiences that integrate theory, technology, and human-centered practice. His work spans learning experience design, UX research, and creative technologies.
Kuwata coordinates the Instructional Technology and Media Program as well as the Computing in Education Online Program, where he leads curricular and structural innovations to address evolving learning needs across in-person and online formats. His teaching and leadership focus on how we come to know through design, and how design itself shapes learning. Kuwata also directs the COGMOS Design Lab, where he mentors students in bridging theory and practice across domains such as learning analytics, interaction design, and AI-enhanced learning environments.
Amina Tawasil, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of International & Transcultural Studies, studies ethnographic and theoretical framings of anonymity, slow labor, and affect. Her varied general interests include women’s mobility in the Middle East, Islamic education, and urban spatial practices. She is now completing her fourth year of ethnographic work among graffiti writers in New York City, Philadelphia and urban New Jersey.
Tawasil is the author of the award-winning Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran — published by Indiana University Press 2024, and numerous journal articles. She was the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University, with a courtesy appointment in their Department of Anthropology.
Full Professorships
Dani Friedrich, Professor of Curriculum, has dedicated his research, teaching and service to connecting curriculum with the practice of democracy. His work, anchored in Curriculum Studies, intersects with teacher education, comparative and international education, and cultural studies, and has dealt with issues of political violence and memory, global teacher education reform, pop culture and curriculum, and doctoral education.
He has published more than 40 articles and edited or authored 4 books, the latest one titled TV as Curriculum Studies: Putting Curriculum Theory to Work, co-authored with TC alum Jordan Corson (Ed.D. ’20). He is currently working on how fascism penetrates educational institutions, and what an anti-fascist pedagogy might look like in the present, with specific insights learned from the Global South.
Terrence Maltbia, Professor of Practice in the Department of Organization & Leadership, focuses on strategic learning, leadership and organizational effectiveness, diversity and cultural intelligence, and executive coaching. His experience includes key leadership roles at Westvaco Corporation and Rath & Strong Management Consultants, specializing in organizational effectiveness and process improvement, with clients such as Equitable, HBO, J.P Morgan and S&P Global.
Since 2007, Maltbia has also served as the faculty director of the Columbia Coaching Certification program, which has credentialed more than 900 executive and organizational coaches across the globe. Named among Thinkers50 | Marshall Goldsmith’s Top Global Coaches, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including AHRD's Cutting Edge Awards, the AIIR Consulting’s Coaching Leadership Award and more.
Brian Perkins, Professor of Practice in the Department of Organization & Leadership, is an expert on school leadership and urban school climate. He is the director of TC's Programs in Education Leadership and the Summer Principals Academy.
A certified principal mentor and former president of the New Haven (CT) Board of Education, he also served on the National School Boards Association Board of Directors. Perkins has consulted for corporations, non-profits, NGOs, schools and universities worldwide, including in Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand and South Africa. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). The author of landmark urban school climate studies, he also hosts an internationally acclaimed leadership podcast.