Joshua Abreu joined Poorvu in June ’23 after serving three years as the director of the Center of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Albertus Magnus College, where he also had an appointment of assistant professor in the Sociology department. He has a background in Social Work, Criminal Justice, and has a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Connecticut, where he studied faculty development and critical self-reflection in relation to social justice teaching in higher education. Joshua is a trained qualitative researcher with extensive experience with interviewing, focus groups, classroom observations, and document analysis. 

His published work includes Racially Liberatory Pedagogy: A Black Lives Matter Approach to Education, Community College English Instructors’ Perceptions on Learning and Enacting Culturally-Sustaining Teaching Methods, and a chapter in Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Diverse Populations on Engaging Formerly Incarcerated College Students. His dissertation research focused on how professors learned to integrate aspects of social justice education into their teaching practices.