Gabriel Swarts

Dr. Gabriel P. Swarts is dean of the School of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences. Prior to joining BW,  he taught in public schools in Northeast Ohio for almost a decade. He earned a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Kent State University in 2017 and then served faculty appointments at the University of Wyoming and St. Bonaventure University in Western New York.

His research interests and publications include work on data privacy and ethics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in education, global education, curriculum studies and philosophy, and social studies teacher education. Swarts has been a part of multiple federal grant projects including the recent awarding of the National Endowment for the Humanities Connections grant, linking humanities fields with teacher education programming.