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CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: South Asian Philosophy of Education, Alternative Education, Social Epistemology, Liberatory Education in Practice, Institutional Analysis, Ethnographies of Schooling
Devika Agrawal is a philosopher and anthropologist of education, focusing on the anti-colonial alternative education movement of India that continues to flourish. More specifically, she looks at pedagogies and institutions that sustain independent thinking and epistemic autonomy.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Measurement, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Accountability Policy, Equity, Fairness
INTERESTS: Teacher Recruitment and Retention, Teacher Quality, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation Causal Inference
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Black, Adolescence, Intersectionality, Interventions, Relationships
Mamfatou Baldeh is a Ph.D. student in the AERID lab working with Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor. Her research interests center the education, identity development, and relationship/community-building experiences of Black adolescents and other students of color.
INTERESTS: Curriculum Policy, Technology Adoption, Institutions Liberatory Approaches, Attitudes Mixed Methods
Nick Balisciano studies the dynamics between institutionalized norms and stakeholder attitudes in the context of PreK-12 curriculum policy and technology adoption, with an emphasis on liberatory approaches. Balisciano uses mixed methods, focusing on surveys and interviews.
INTERESTS: Higher Education, Inequality, Policy, Low-Income Students, Race
D'Wayne Bell's overarching research interests is focused on inequality and higher education revolving around three primary areas. The first area concentrates on whether universal or targeted higher education policies are more effective in closing income-based higher education gaps.
INTERESTS: Immigration and Refugee Education, Transnationalism, Inequality and Education Gaps
Ben Blanco is interested in immigrant students’ school experiences, with a particular interest in students' categorized as having interrupted education.
INTERESTS: Higher Education, Policy, Ethics
INTERESTS: Multilingualism, Educational Linguistics, Immigrant Education, Native Language Instruction, Language and Literacy Development
Bailey Buchanan studies multilingual language and literacy development in children and adolescents, particularly newcomers, in the U.S. context. She is interested in native language instruction and educational experiences that celebrate students’ linguistic resources.
INTERESTS: Philosophy of Education, Existentialism, Phenomenology Ethics, Philosophy with Children, Teacher and Student Agency, Teacher Education
Alex Chang is a Ph.D. student interested in studying the philosophy of education with a focus on questions of agency and ethics.