Tommy Ender, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
410-617-5376
tender@loyola.edu
Education
Ph.D., Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, May 2017
Received National Board Certification in Early Adolescence/Social Studies-History, November 2011
M.Ed., Secondary Education, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 2004
B.A., History & Political Science, Drew University, Madison, NJ, 2000
Biography
Tommy Ender earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ender has offered courses on qualitative research methodology and supervised middle grades teacher candidates. Prior to earning his Ph.D., Dr. Ender taught social studies from Grades 6-12 for nine years.
Research Interests
Social Studies Education
Latino Critical Theory in Education
Qualitative Methods
Urban Education
Social Justice in Education
Sociology of Education
Selected Awards
- Graduate Student Association Conference Participation Award
- School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
- Fellow – Future Faculty Fellowship Program
- UNC Center for Faculty Excellence, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
Selected Publications
Carrillo, J.F., Ender, T., & Perez, J. (2017). “Letters to our children: Narrating legacies of love, dissent, and possibility.” Journal of Latinos and Education. DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2017.1319369
Ender, T. (in press). Ethnic. In D.G. Krutka, A.M. Whitlock, & M. Helmsing (Eds.),Keywords in social studies: Concepts and conversations. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Ender, T. & Rodriguez, E. (in press). Beyond survival: A portrait of latin@s in north carolina. In L. Urrieta & G. Noblit (Eds.), The cultural construction of identity: Meta- ethnography and theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Professional Memberships
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA)
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)