About Us
Director: Dr. Shakhnoza Kayumova is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education and Teacher Development in the College of Arts & Sciences. She is a National Science CAREER Award recipient and recently received a grant for $778,770 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for Faculty Early Career Development. In addition to teaching at UMass Dartmouth, Kayumova is involved with the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education.
Contact: skayumova@umassd.edu
Associate Director: Dr. Anthony Arrigo, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communications. He conducts interdisciplinary research that contributes to scholarship in rhetoric and communications studies, cultural and technology studies, and environmental studies.
Contact: aarrigo@umassd.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Michael Goodman is Executive Director of the PPC and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. An economic sociologist, Professor Goodman is a past president of the New England Economic Partnership, a nonprofit organization made up of leading regional analysts that produce semi-annual economic forecasts of the economic outlook for each of the six New England states.
Dr. June Horowitz is the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, College of Nursing. She is an active NIH reviewer with a background in psychiatric mental health in acute care settings. Her current research on the clinical health of mothers and infants after birth.
Dr. Rachel Kulick is an Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her teaching and research are guided by a transdisciplinary, critical, participatory, and innovative agenda to forward community-driven social change work at the local, regional, and global level.
Dr. Chad McGuire is a professor of environmental policy in the Department of Public Policy. His background is in environmental law and environmental science with an emphasis on marine issues. He works in the fields of environmental law, policy, sustainability, and dispute resolution.
Dr. Ricardo Rosa, Educational Leadership. Ricardo Rosa’s current research centers on emerging articulations of educational privatization and its effects on organizational behavior in educational settings and possibilities for transformative leadership. His research also focuses on curricular theory and praxis within and beyond the boundaries of normative schooling.
Dr. Keivan Sadeghzadeh is Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.