Curriculum and Instruction Faculty
Debra Austin, Adjunct Instructor, Curriculum and Instruction 
PhD, University of Denver; JD, University of San Francisco; BME, University of Colorado-Boulder
Career highlights: Co-investigator on $1.2 million dollar ITEST grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to study the impact of interdisciplinary game development curriculum incorporating instruction in art, design, math, and technology; teaches legal research at DU's Sturm College of Law; serves as a member of the Business Advisory Counsel for Martin Luther King Jr. Early College; received the William T. Driscoll Master Educator Award.
Research interests: 21st century pedagogy, teaching and learning with technology, humane game development, education policy
Professional affiliations: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, American Educational Research Association
E-mail: daustin@law.du.edu
Web site: http://www.law.du.edu/daustin/teaching/
Rexford G. Brown, Interim Director of the Teacher Education Program 
PhD, MA, University of Iowa; BA, Middlebury College
Career highlights: Founding Executive Director of P.S.1 Charter School, an interdisciplinary, project-based, inner-city middle school/high school in Denver; former Director of the University of Denver High School; authored It's Your Fault! An insider's guide to learning and teaching in city schools, (2003) and Schools of Thought: How the politics of literacy shape thinking in the classroom, (1991), and scores of articles, monographs and reports on education reform and student achievement in reading, writing and art.
Research interests: school design, organizational discourse.
E-mail: rbrown9@du.edu
Nicholas J. Cutforth, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction 
PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago; MS, University of Oregon; BEd, College of St. Paul and St. Mary (Cheltenham, England)
Career highlights: Co-authored two books on university-community collaboration (one on youth development and physical activity, the other on community-based research); recognized in the U.S. and the U.K. as an expert in community-based research; works with faculty, staff and student colleagues toward DU's national prominence in its sustained and democratic partnerships with schools and community organizations in Denver; developed the Colorado Community-Based Research Network (www.ccbrn.org) to a level where it is a viable entity as a vehicle for social change.
Research interests: community-based research, university-community collaboration, physical activity for under-served youth, urban education, school-based research, program development and evaluation, ethnographic research.
Professional affiliations: International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
E-mail: ncutfort@du.edu
Nicholas J. Cutforth Vita
Web sites: http://portfolio.du.edu/ncutfort; http://myprofile.cos.com/cutfortn94
Norma Hafenstein, Director and Assistant Professor, Ricks Center for Gifted Children 
PhD, University of Denver; MS, Kansas State University; BS, Emporia State University, gifted and talented education
Career highlights: Founded the Ricks Center for Gifted Children; has been an active leader with the National Association for Gifted Children for more than 20 years; founded the Institute for the Development of Gifted Education; serves as a member of the Colorado Department of Education Gifted and Talented Endorsement Standards Committee.
Research interests: young gifted children, information-processing styles, social and emotional development, mathematical ability, individualized educational planning.
Professional affiliations: American Educational Research Association, National Association for Gifted Children, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
E-mail: nhafenst@du.edu
Edith W. King, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction 
EdD and MA, Wayne State University; BA, University of Michigan, curriculum and instruction
Career highlights: Recent books authored: Meeting the Challenges of Teaching in an Era of Terrorism (2006), Sociology for Educators in the Post 9/11 World (2007), Looking Into the Live of Children: A Worldwide View (1999), as well as author of numerous other books, book chapters, articles and monographs in sociology of education, social theory, diversity and multiethnic education, international education; chaired 42 doctoral dissertations; serves as advisory board member and editorial consultant for American, British and Australian publishers including: Allyn and Bacon, Heinemann, James Nicholas Publishers, Routledge/Falmer, Rowman and Littlefield, Altamira Press, and McGraw Hill; serves as advisory board member for the journals: Sociology of Education, Race Equality Teaching, Sociological Inquiry, and the Journal of Cultural Research in Art; engaged in funded international research projects on education in Germany, China, and Hong Kong.
Research interests: sociology of education, gender, ethnicity and social class in education, multicultural and comparative education, qualitative research methods, international education.
Professional affiliations: American Sociological Association, American Educational Research Association, International Peace Research Association, U.S. Society for Education in the Arts.
E-mail: eking@du.edu
Edith W. King Vita
Web site: http://www.du.edu/~eking
Paul Michalec, Program Chair and Clinical Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction 
PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder; MA, Mankato State University; BS, Cornell University
Career highlights: Former Director of Student Teaching, Skidmore College; developed an innovative institution-to-institution K-16 partnership between Skidmore College and a local school district; served on editorial board for the newsletter EnCouragement; received Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award in 2005 at DU; founding member of Colorado Courage To Teach; Courage to Teach facilitator leading year-long retreat series for Denver Public School teachers and building leaders focusing on renewal and teacher formation; published in Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue; faculty advisor for the Dual Undergraduate/Graduate Degree Program; Morgridge College of Education teaching coach.
Research interests: teacher education, effective instruction in higher education, spiritual dimensions of teaching, teacher renewal/formation.
Professional affiliations: American Association of Teaching and Curriculum, Center for Courage and Renewal.
E-mail: pmichale@du.edu
Paul Michalec Vita
Maria del Carmen Salazar, Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction 
PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder; MA, University of Denver; BA, University of Colorado-Denver
Career highlights: Publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Bilingual Research Journal, Borderlands Journal, and The High School Journal; national conference presentations for American Educational Research Association, National Association for Bilingual Education, Latino Critical Race Theory, Coalition of Essential Schools, and National Council of Teachers of English; currently appointed to the Colorado Department of Education NCLB English Language Acquisition Advisory Council, Colorado Department of Education Reading First Leadership Team and Governor Ritter's Teacher Quality Commission; serves as co-chair of Morgridge College of Education Diversity Committee; faculty representative for DU Latina/o Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship. Research interests: teacher education, urban education, linguistically diverse education, cultural competency, teacher as researcher, academic resiliency of Chicana/o & Mexicana/o youth.
Professional affiliations: American Educational Research Association, National Association for Bilingual Education, Colorado Association for Bilingual Education, American Association of University Women.
E-mail: msalazar@du.edu
P. Bruce Uhrmacher, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction 
PhD, Stanford University; MEd, Harvard University; BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, curriculum and instruction
Career highlights: Co-editor of Intricate Palette: Working the Ideas of Elliot Eisner; faculty advisor for the Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado (AEIC); served as the book review editor for the International Journal of Leadership in Education; served as President of the American Association For Teaching and Curriculum; honored with the University of Denver Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004.
Research interests: alternative school settings, curriculum theory and practice, Waldorf education, issues in qualitative research, arts-based research.
Professional affiliations: American Educational Research Association, National Art Education Association, Phi Delta Kappa, American Association of Teaching and Curriculum.
E-mail: buhrmach@du.edu
P. Bruce Uhrmacher Vita
Web sites: https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/port?portfolio=buhrmach; http://www.think360arts.org