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CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Education and Care, Policy, Social and Emotional Learning, Early Learning, Emotions, Systems Thinking
INTERESTS: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural, Mixed Methods, Career Development
INTERESTS: Language, Developmental psychology, Cognitive Science, Parenting, Early childhood, International Development, Multilingualism
Sandra El Hadi is interested in children's language and cognitive development, parenting, and early childhood education. She is trilingual and uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in her research. Her professional experience has been primarily in international development.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood, Developmental Disabilities, Cognitive Neuroscience, Early Intervention, Special Education
Anne-Michelle Engelstad is researching neurodevelopmental trajectories of children with developmental differences and early intervention.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Educational Aspirations, Higher Education Success, Education Technology, Development Economics
Joaquin Farina leverages causal inference to evaluate policies and gain insights into human behavior. His research explores the role of educational aspirations, data-driven improvement, barriers to higher education success, and AI’s potential to hyper-contextualize solutions.
INTERESTS: Applied Psychology, Social and Emotional Development, Early Childhood, Program Evaluation, Equity, Global Contexts
Sarah Farnsworth Hatch is interested in how interventions can promote children's social and emotional development. Programs and policies central to her work include poverty reduction efforts, parenting interventions, and social and emotional learning. She is particularly interested in quantitative methodologies and research based in lower and middle income countries.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood, Social-Emotional Development, Child Development, Early Education and Care Quality, Relationships, Adult-Child Interactions
Lily Fritz is a Ph.D. candidate who studies the influence of children's early environments on social-emotional development, with an emphasis on understanding early education and care settings as contexts for children's emotion socialization.
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Teachers and Teaching, Education Equity, Sociology of Culture and Work, Qualitative Methods
Krista Galleberg studies the intersection of cultural sociology, sociology of work and the teaching profession. I’m interested in how teachers think about themselves and their work, and how research on the teaching profession can contribute to racial equity in education.
INTERESTS: Racial Bias, Experimental Research, Instruction, Pedagogy, Math Education, Teachers, Teaching
Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith's research examines mechanisms that contribute to racial-ethnic disparities in mathematics education. Her scholarly interests are at the intersection of teacher education, social psychology, and math education.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Education, Human Development, Public Policy, Educator Development
Madelyn Gardner is interested in exploring the environments and conditions under which early education and care consistently and equitably promotes children’s academic and social-emotional skill development.