Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

Biography

Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Ph.D., is Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at Stonehill. She previously held positions at the College including associate professor and director of graduate teacher education at Stonehill and director of Stonehill on Cape Cod. She was the founding director of Graduate Inclusive Education. 

Stringer Keefe’s research agenda includes several current projects aimed at advancing the field of teacher education/preparation, particularly identifying innovations and new understandings about teacher preparation for diverse student groups and educational contexts. She is Principal Investigator of Project InSIDE: Instantiating Social Justice, Inclusivity, Democracy, and Equity: A Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices, examining how contemporary teacher education is preparing teachers to work constructively and successfully to address the endemic inequalities in educational opportunities and outcomes, especially those that persist between dominant and minoritized groups. She is Principal Investigator of Project SOLVE (Strategies and Opportunities for Leading Virtual Education), a multi-year national research project examining the impact of the pandemic on teachers and teaching and implications for teacher preparation programs. She is also Principal Investigator of the Inclusive Catholic Education Research (ICER) Project. Her research has also focused on teacher education policy initiatives and reforms, including Project TEER, a group of teacher education scholars and practitioners who collectively research issues related to teacher education, education reform, policy, and politics.  

Education

• B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• M.Ed., Lesley College
• Ph.D., Boston College

Courses Taught

• Contemporary Issues in Education
• Curricular Innovations and Assistive Technology
• Disability and Democracy 
• Educational Equity and Inclusivity