| Ph.D. in
Education, 1997 |
George Mason University |
Fairfax, VA |
| M.A. in Guidance &
Counseling, 1978 |
University of Colorado |
Boulder, CO |
| B.M. in Music Education,
1973 |
Colorado State University |
Ft. Collins, CO |
Dr. Barfield has taught or been a guidance
counselor in Japan, Micronesia, and Germany, as well as in Colorado,
California, Virginia, and Montana. As a consultant, she has worked in the
private sector and conducted program evaluations for the Center for
Applied Linguistics (CAL), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), and
individual school districts in Arizona, California, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C.,
Michigan, and Oregon.
Dr. Barfield has been at MSU-B since fall
1997 and is currently an Assistant Professor for the Department of
Educational Theory & Practice and the Department of Music. She also
worked with the U.S. Department of Education Office of English Language
Acquisition Big Horn Teacher and
Personnel and Big Horn Career Ladder projects.