• While a Fulbright scholar in Belarus (February-June, 2007), led a small investigative team of three professors (two American Fulbrighters and one local professor at Minsk State Linguistics University) into how the use of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) specifically Skype has influenced language learning in university students in Belarus. Designed, distributed and analyzed a survey on Skype use amongst 179 students in three Belarussian universities.
• Doctoral Research and Dissertation, Michigan State University, College of Education, Lansing, Michigan, 2003-2005. This was a qualitative life-history approach research in which five Albanian English teachers were interviewed about the impact of socio-political changes in Albania during the early 1990s and the impact that these changes had on interviewees’ pedagogical and linguistic competence. Carried out in-depth multiple interviews with five subjects and transcribed, analyzed and synthesized interviews and wrote a successful dissertation.

Participated in the following studies as a doctoral student at Michigan State University, College of Education (although was not a principal investigator in any of the studies and did not report on them either orally at conferences or in written form in professional journals):

• Mathematics Policy Study: Researched sources for preliminary investigation into the content knowledge of prospective math teachers; Interviewed university administrators, math and education faculty at Michigan universities and colleges
• Charter and School of Choice Policy Study: Conducted interviews with state of Michigan school principals and district superintendents; Telephone surveyed Michigan ISD superintendents: Transcribed     and wrote interview reports: Analyzed data for coding
• Summer Reading K-3 Literacy Program: Assessed and scored pre and post literacy skills of K-3 children participating in Michigan summer literacy programs
• Elementary School Science Literacy Study: Designed (SPSS) data base; Entered data; Assisted project manager in all phases of research project
• Literature Review for Research on a Meta-Analysis of U.S.Teacher Education: Researched, read and wrote syntheses of literature on research in content and pedagogical content knowledge in teacher education programs in U.S. universities
• Teachers’ Changing Practice: Analyzed and coded teacher interviews using qualitative software program (NUDIST) for a national educational reform research project on teachers’ changing practices in elementary math and English language arts classes
• “Lighthouse Project”: Observed classes; Interviewed teachers, coordinators and school principals of selected “Lighthouse” after-school programs of Chicago public schools in order to help investigate effectiveness of academic programs for at-risk students

• “Skype and Language Learning in Belarus” - Presented findings from Fulbright studies at TESOL conference, Kyiv, Ukraine, Spring, 2007, American Studies Conference, Minsk, Belarus, Spring, 2007, and
• “Skype and Language Learning in Belarus” - Will co-present at TESOL Convention, New York, New York, Spring 2008.
• “When the doors opened: Transitional Era Impacts on Albanian English Teachers’ Professional Lives” - Presented findings from doctoral dissertation research at the MITESOL Conference, Fall, 2005 and TESOL Convention, Spring, 2006.