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CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: International Education, Philanthropy, Education Finance, Inequity, Organization Theory, Global Governance
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Immigration, Critical Theory, Higher Education, College Access, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Food and Agriculture
Emma Lezberg is an interdisciplinary migration scholar investigating the effects of immigration law and immigration status on families and young people in the United States.
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Learning Science, Multimodal Learning Analytics, Augmented Reality, Media Studies, Journalism, Human Computer Interaction, Wearable Computing
Max Lu is harnessing technology and learning science to enhance human learning efficiency.
INTERESTS: Teachers, Peer Learning, Social Networks, Collaboration, Secondary Education
Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo focuses on teacher learning in the workplace through collaboration with peers. She aims to understand the features of teacher-to-teacher relations that allow transfer of expertise between them, as well as the programs and policies to promote them.
INTERESTS: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Adult Learning and Development, Race, Culture, Equity, Education
Emily Meland's research aims to bridge silos between social and emotional learning (SEL) and culturally sustaining, asset-based pedagogies. Her work centers on building adult capacities and supporting culturally responsive, developmental interactions between educators and students.
INTERESTS: Ethnic Studies, Pedagogy, Critical Education, Humanizing Education, Teacher Education, Identity Development, Culturally Responsive/Sustaining Practices
Melina Melgoza focuses on the influence of ethnic studies pedagogy on students and teachers, offering insights into their experiences and perceptions. She examines the transformative potential of this pedagogical approach, particularly in fostering critical and humanizing spaces.
INTERESTS: Developmental Psychology, Psychological Anthropology, Social Development, Moral Development, Parenting, Socialization, Cross-Cultural Research
Michał Miąskiewicz uses naturalistic and experimental methods to study young children’s cognition and behavior in situations when their desires conflict with those of others. His research traces children’s concern for the welfare of others and its socialization across cultures.
INTERESTS: Literacy, Reading Interventions, Fluency
Alfatah Moore is a RA in the READS Lab. His research focuses on reading interventions and the role of fluency in grade-level reading achievement. He has taught students directly as a reading clinician and has also led district-wide initiatives to deliver interventions at scale.
INTERESTS: Quantitative Methods, Equity, Math Education, Statistics, Race
INTERESTS: Math Education, Equity, Errors, Revision, Classroom Practices, Teacher Practices
INTERESTS: Refugee Education, Peace Education, Decolonial Education, Palestine, Equity, Social Justice Education, Qualitative Methods
Catherine Pitcher is interested in understanding how young people in Palestine engage in future-building and the connections between education and peaceful futures.
INTERESTS: Liberatory Pedagogies, Racial Justice, Equity, Histories of Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Professional Learning, Teacher Activism
Ivelisse Ramos studies the holistic lives of urban educators who work for racial justice in public schools. Her research examines justice-driven educators’ pedagogies as well as the sources of support from which they draw and the challenges they face inside and outside of schools.
INTERESTS: African American Education, History of Education, Critical Social Theory, Black Women's Studies
Zenzile Riddick's research explores the historical and contemporary landscape of African American education. She primarily studies the development and impact of justice-oriented educational models through the narratives, philosophies, and practices of African American women.
INTERESTS: Bureaucracy, Community, Justice, Policy, Public Education, Urban
Malcolm Rivers' research examines teachers’ and administrators’ work as street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky, 1980) impacting policy through implementation and their roles as interlocutors between communities and bureaucracies with sometimes different attitudes towards, and goals for, schooling.
INTERESTS: YPAR/CPAR/Youth Activism, Poverty/Class Race, Community-Engaged Research, Community-Embedded Educators, Critical Pedagogy/Research, Culturally Relevant/Sustaining Pedagogy
Through community-engaged research, Georgina Rivers is interested in examining the pedagogical practices teachers and youth workers from low-income communities employ to cultivate young peoples’ political engagement.
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Program Evaluation, Learning Outcomes, Tutoring, RCTs
Rony Rodriguez-Ramirez specializes in conducting program evaluations of education policies in conflict-affected regions to assess their impact on learning outcomes and students' well-being.
INTERESTS: College Affordability, Higher Education, State Policy, Equity, Student Success, Social Mobility
INTERESTS: Ethnic-Racial Identity, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, Whiteness, Adolescent Development
Megan Satterthwaite-Freiman is interested in studying how White adolescents develop their ethnic-racial identity within the sociohistorical context of the United States and how parents and educators can support White youth in building antiracist identities.
INTERESTS: Language Environments, Literacy Development, Early Childhood, Cognition
Lauren Schilling is interested in how children’s early language and literacy environments support their word learning and reading skills. Her research lies at the intersection of psycholinguistic theory, cognitive science, and everyday practices in the home and classroom.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Psychometrics, Causal Inference, International Settings, Impact Evaluation, Measurement
INTERESTS: Infant-Toddler Care and Development, Relational Quality, Early Childhood Workforce, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Cross-Cultural & Cross-Context
Megan Shahnooshi is generally interested in early relational development between infants, toddlers, and their non-kin caregivers.
INTERESTS: Educational Ethics, Political Education, Education and Religion, Conservative Education, Moral Development
Allison Mee Stevens’s research connects philosophy and politics through the lens of conservative education. She is interested in moral formation, faith, and tradition as an epistemic resource.
INTERESTS: Policy, K-12, School Choice, Vouchers, Education Savings Accounts, Accountability, Funding
David Struhs studies U.S. education policy, school choice, accountability, and funding.
INTERESTS: Biculturalism, Cognitive Flexibility, Social Adjustment, Cross-Cultural Context on Development, Identity Development
Guicheng “Ariel” Tan is interested in studying how people integrate different cultures, and what are the cognitive and developmental implications of cultural integration.
INTERESTS: Black Studies, Educational Policy, History
INTERESTS: Creative Computing, Computer Science Education, Identity, Agency, Youth Participatory Design, Human-Computer Interaction
Jacob Wolf's research explores how young people learn about computing in formal and informal learning settings and how this learning shapes the relationships young people have with technology in their everyday lives.
INTERESTS: Applied Developmental Science, Explanations, Intuitions, Metaphors
INTERESTS: Computer Science Education, Generative AI
Stephanie Yang's research focuses on computer science education, with particular emphasis on understanding debugging. She studies how students learn to troubleshoot code and the impact of generative AI tools in CS education.
INTERESTS: Arts Education, Equity, Civic Education, Immigrants, Transnationalism, Aesthetics, Ethnography
Hwa Pyung is a mixed-methods researcher specializing in multicultural education. Prior to Harvard, Pyung has worked as a language teacher, non-profit director, and analyst for large-scale policy evaluations.
INTERESTS: Parent-Child Long-Distance Interaction, Chinese Rural Stay-Behind Children, Family Separation, Parent Education, SEL Programs in Low-Resource Communities
Yuhan Zhong's research focuses on understanding Chinese rural separated families' experiences of connection and disconnection. She wants her work to promote the wellbeing of Chinese rural stay-behind children by engaging and collaborating with important adults in their lives.
INTERESTS: Inequality, Higher Education, Workforce Development, Policy, Economics