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Core Staff

  • Christopher Johnstone – Director
  • Matt Schuelka – Consultant, Research Assistant
  • Christopher Rogers – Information Specialist
  • Jerry Smith – Media Specialist
  • Shawn Lawler – Webmaster

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Christopher J. Johnstone, Ph.D.

Director, The Global Resource Center for Inclusive Education

Dr. Johnstone holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Inclusive Special Education from Syracuse University. He has over 15 years experience working in school- and community-based settings for persons with disabilities as a professor, evaluator, consultant, rehabilitation expert, and teacher. He has worked extensively in international settings, including pro bono and contract work in Ghana, India, Tanzania, Lesotho, Kenya, and Mexico. Dr. Johnstone's current projects include a feasibility study of inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago, leading special education teacher training efforts in Singapore, and an empirical study of the overlap of HIV/AIDS and developmental disability in Lesotho.

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Matt Schuelka

Consultant, Research Assistant

Matthew Schuelka is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of Minnesota in Comparative and International Development Education. Previously he was a special educator in Minnesota and Vermont. His current activities include consulting on inclusive education projects with UNICEF, conducting transition policy research at the Institute on Community Integration, and lecturing on inclusive education practices for the Global Teacher Education Program. In the spring of 2011, Mr. Schuelka traveled to Zambia as part of a research exchange on special education. His dissertation research will bring him to Bhutan in 2012 as part of a year long ethnographic study on inclusive education policy and disability identity. He holds graduate degrees in Special Education (M.Ed) from the University of Vermont and International Education Administration and Policy Analysis (M.A.) from Stanford University.

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Associates

Associates of the Global Resource Center are leaders in their respective fields who periodically advise or collaborate on GRC projects. Our associates provide valuable subject expertise and leadership capacity for our work.

  • David R. Johnson, Ph.D.

    • Associate Dean for Research and Policy, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota
    • Director, Institute on Community Integration
    • Emma Birkmaier Professor of Educational Leadership

  • Martha Thurlow, Ph.D.

    • Director, National Center on Educational Outcomes

  • Deanne Magnusson, Ph.D.

    • Faculty, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota

  • Roger Stancliffe, Ph.D.

    • Senior Research Fellow, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Sydney (Australia)

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