Ellen Mayer
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Ellen Mayer is a Research Associate at Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP),
conducting analysis on community, school, and family influences on the developmental
trajectories of low-income children, with a special focus on qualitative inquiry.
She supervises graduate interns in qualitative analysis and has managed ethnographic
data collection on the School Transition Study.
Previously she worked as Associate Director for Administration at HFRP.
Mayer has a special interest in developing creative applications of research
findings, such as research material for limited-literacy parents and teaching
cases for preparing and training elementary school teachers. She is currently
writing a series of research-inspired children's storybooks with a family educational
involvement theme for the early grades.
Before coming to HFRP Mayer was a Researcher at Barnard College and a Program
Evaluator for a social welfare agency in New York City. She holds a M.A. and
a M.Phil. in sociology from Columbia University, with doctoral specializations
in sociology of the family, urban sociology, and sociological theory.
See the publications Ellen Mayer
has written for the School Transition Study.
Email Ellen Mayer at ellen_mayer@harvard.edu.
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