the faculty in the Penn State College of Education Adult Education program

Adult Education Faculty

University Park Campus Faculty and Staff

Name and Title	Contact Information	Interest Areas
Eunice N. Askov Distinguished Professor Emerita	314 Keller ena1@psu.edu (814) 863-3777	Adult Education; Literacy
Gary W. Kuhne Co-Professor-in-Charge/ Associate Professor	314E Keller gwk1@psu.edu (814) 867-0228	Continuing and Distance Education
Michael G. Moore Distinguished Professor	411C Keller mgmoore@psu.edu (814) 863-3501	Adult and Distance Education
Esther Prins Associate Professor	305B Keller esp150@psu.edu (814) 865-0597	Adult and Family Literacy; Participatory Research; Civic Engagment and Community Development; Social Inequalities (gender, race, class, culture)
Fred M. Schied Co-Professor-in-Charge/ Associate Professor	305E Keller fms3@psu.edu (814) 863-3499	Socio-historical Approaches to Adult Education, Workers and Workplace Learning
Ladislaus "Ladi" M. Semali Associate Professor	307 Keller lms11@psu.edu (814) 865-2246	Adult Education; Comparative and International Education
Melody M. Thompson Associate Professor	409E Keller mmt2@psu.edu (814) 863-0614	History of Adult Education; Teaching and Learning; Distance Education

Name and Title	Contact Information	Interest Areas
Robin Redmon Wright	W-314 Olmsted rrw12@psu.edu (717) 948-6405	Adult Identity Development; Feminist Identity Development; Popular Culture and Informal Adult Learning and Development; Adult Learning, Educational Access and Socio-Economic Class
Edward W. Taylor Professor	W-331-H Olmsted ewt1@psu.edu (717) 948-6364	Adult Cognition and Learning Transformative Learning Teaching Beliefs
Elizabeth J. Tisdell Professor and Program Coordinator	W-331-I Olmsted ejt11@psu.edu (717) 948-6640	Adult Development and Learning Feminist, Critical, and Multicultural Pedagogy, Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education
Deb Klug Staff Assistant	W-331 Olmsted dlk33@psu.edu (717) 948-6321 Fax: (717) 948-6064	Staff Assistant