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CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Math Education, Equity, Errors, Revision, Classroom Practices, Teacher Practices
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
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.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
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.