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CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Multimodal Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Computer Vision
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Civic Education, Civic Development, Civic Discourse, Higher Education, Democratic Education College Students, Civic Pedagogy
Maya Cohen studies the civic education and civic formation of college students. Her current work explores the history of civic discourse pedagogies in higher education and the motivations and experiences of students who engage in discourse across political difference.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Violence Against Children, Physical Punishment, Causal Inference, Impact Evaluation, Parenting Programs, Prevention
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
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Higher Education Policy, Economics, Immigration, Workforce Development
Jorge Encinas researches the intersection of higher education policy and other policy areas, such as immigration, transportation, and employment. His focus is on how these policies affect the educational and employment outcomes of low-income, immigrant, and underrepresented students.
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.
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.
INTERESTS: Higher Education, Workforce Development, Economics of Education, Community Colleges, Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness