Ilayda Altuntas Nott

Ilayda Altuntas Nott

Clinical Assistant Professor

Ilayda Altuntas Nott joins the School of Education as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction department. Her research focuses on sound pedagogy, sounding art practices and methods, and listening theories with awareness and memory. Her teaching specializations include curriculum design, improvisational and sound-based teaching methodologies, teacher licensure in art education, and community-based art education. Altuntas Nott earned her Ph.D. in Art Education from Pennsylvania State University.

Lori Burch

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Lori Burch joins the School of Education as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction department. She has served as an Associate Instructor and Graduate Research Assistant. Burch earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Mathematics Education from the IU School of Education.

Charla Davis

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Charla Davis joins the School of Education as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Counseling and Education Psychology department. She is an experienced clinician with experiences that include but are not limited to crisis intervention, psychological assessment, anger management, and individual counseling skills with specialization of working with diverse persons. Davis earned her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adler University.

Susan Drumm

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Susan Drumm joins the School of Education as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Instructional Systems Technology department. She is experienced in course design for online and blended learning, library science and technology integration in K-12 schools, learning design and development, research, analysis, and evaluation. Drumm earned her Ed.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from the IU School of Education.

Vanessa Miller

Assistant Professor

Vanessa Miller joins the School of Education as an Assistant Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on education law (P-20), race and the law, school and university police, and prison education. Prior to joining the faculty at IU, Miller worked at an education law firm in California and was the inaugural Postdoctoral Associate for the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She earned her JD from Penn State Law and Ph.D. in higher education from The Pennsylvania State University.

Nan Mu

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Nan Mu joins the School of Education as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Counseling and Educational Psychology department. Their research interests include perspective talking, social cognition, bilingualism, second language acquisition, and quantitative research methods. Mu is expected to earn their Ph.D. in Education from Johns Hopkins University in 2023.

Myeisha Price

Associate Professor

Myeshia Price joins the School of Education as an Associate Professor in the Counseling and Educational Psychology department and as an Associate Research Scientist with the Kinsey Institute. They have a broad background in adolescent sexual and gender development and mental health research utilizing advanced statistical methodologies and longitudinal research practices. Price’s current area of research focuses on the rich experiences of LGBTQ youth in the U.S., including risk and protective factors for suicidality. Price earned their Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jill Scott

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Jill Scott joins the School of Education as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction department. She has served as an elementary teacher, literacy coach, elementary field supervisor, and most recently as an Associate Instructor teaching core literacy courses across three programs: Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, and Special Education/Elementary Education. Scott is expected to earn her Ph.D. in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from the IU School of Education in October 2023.

Leonard Taylor

Associate Professor

Leonard Taylor joins the School of Education as the Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement and Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. Taylor’s research focuses on investigating and improving how student success commitments are enacted at higher education institutions. Taylor earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and Policy Development from the University of Minnesota.

Jessica Weise

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jessica Weise joins the School of Education as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Postsecondary Research. Weise earned their Ph.D. in Administration in Higher Education from Auburn University and received honorable mention for the AERA Division J Dissertation of the Year Award. Their research focuses on student activism and community organizing, as applied to the study of queer studies in higher education.