The following is a directory of students currently enrolled in an Ed.D. or Ph.D. program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Note: This is an opt-in directory, and does not represent every student enrolled in the doctoral programs.
Doctoral Student Directory: Ed.L.D. Students | Ed.D. / Ph.D. Students
Frannie Abernethy
Interests: Literacy Development, Discussion-Based Learning, Teacher Training, The Minority Teacher Pipeline, Academic Language, Early Childhood, Adolescent Literacy
Frannie Abernethy's research focuses on language and literacy development, and mitigating barriers to high-quality language environments.
Gladys Aguilar
Interests: Biliteracy, Bilingualism, Race and Ethnicity, Immigrant Families, Language Minority Children, Socio-Emotional Development, Adult-Child Interactions
Gladys Aguilar's research focuses on the bilingual, biliteracy, and socio-emotional development of language for minority children and the role parents, caregivers, and teachers have in shaping this development.
Maya Alkateb-Chami
Interests: Critical Pedagogy, Decolonial Education, Cultural and Linguistic Rights, Youth Empowerment, Anthropology and Education
Maya Alkateb-Chami’s research focuses on youth empowerment in politically challenging spaces.
Lily An
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Measurement, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Equity, Fairness, Policy
Lily An studies educational measurement and causal inference as a Ph.D. student and Presidential Scholar at HGSE. Her research involves analyzing longitudinal tests and improving evaluation methods.
Linda Andreev
Interests: Language and Literacy, Instruction/Pedagogy, Scaffolding, Differentiation, Bilingualism
Linda Andreev focuses on supporting the language and literacy development and academic content learning of newly arrived immigrant youth in the secondary grades.
Nicholas Balisciano
Interests: Collaborative Professional Learning, Group Dynamics, Educational Theory Development, Institutional Forces, Pedagogical Change, Curriculum Reform, Stakeholder Collaboration
Nicholas Balisciano is a mixed-methods, interdisciplinary researcher. He studies group, organizational, and institutional factors that influence how educators and researchers generate, codify, and change pedagogical knowledge and practice in collaboration with each other and other stakeholders.
Becca Bassett
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: First-Generation College Students, Higher Education, Equity, Ethnography, Cultural Sociology, Organizational Change
Becca Bassett draws on cultural sociology and organizational theory to examine how universities can change to become more equitable organizations and better serve their low-income, first-generation students. She founded and leads the Freedom Project Alumni College Success Program.
Samantha Batel Kane
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Information and Decision-Making, Labor Economics
Samantha Batel Kane’s research interests are in the economics of education, including the impact of federal, state, and district-level policies on academic and labor market outcomes, as well as the effect of information on education decision-making.
Masha Bertling
Interests: Psychometrics, Policy, Heterogeneity, Causal Inference
Masha Bertling's focus is on advancing psychometric and statistical models to better inform educational policies and practices; and improving the measurement of learning outcomes and effect sizes to enable scientifically valid comparisons across countries and contexts.
Lucian Bessmer
Interests: Higher Education, History of Knowledge Production, History of Science, History Of 20th Century U.S., Data-Informed Higher Ed Decision-Making, Professionalization of Education
Lucian Bessmer is a historian of education. He is particularly interested in the history of professional schools, the relationship between society, corporations, and the production of knowledge, and higher education governance.
Megan Bogia
Interests: Higher Education, Political Theory
Megan Bogia studies the role of higher education in democracy.
Sarah Bruhn
Interests: Immigration, Motherhood, Family Engagement, Place
Sarah Bruhn studies how gender and place inform immigrants' experiences of belonging. Her dissertation examines the relationships between Latina immigrant mothers and their children's schools in the context of a Sanctuary City.
Mark Chin
Interests: Race, Equity, Segregation, Peer Effects, Racial Attitudes, Politics, Prosocial Behavior
Mark Chin's research uses rigorous quantitative methods to identify how schools’ impact social equity by changing individuals' racial attitudes, prosocial behaviors, and politics.
Edwin Chng
Interests: Multimodal Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining
Edwin Chng is a Ph.D. student at Harvard. His research interest lies in the application of data analytics to education. He is interested in identifying data proxies within the classroom to capture the learning process so as to support evidence-based intervention strategies.
Christopher Cleveland
Interests: Policy, Special Education, Finance, Social Emotional Learning, Budget
Christopher Cleveland's research interests are issues of school governance, finance, and special education services.
Jorge Cuartas
Interests: Early Childhood, Parenting, Corporal Punishment, Exposure to Violence, Poverty, Causal Inference, Ecological Environment
Jorge Cuartas' work focuses on the analysis of human development and parenting in contexts of adversity (i.e., poverty and violence), on the consequences of exposure to corporal punishment in early childhood, and on impact evaluation in low- and- middle-income-countries.
Marta Dormal
Interests: Early Childhood Development, Early Childhood Settings, Quality Monitoring, Program Evaluation, Measurements
Marta Dormal's research focuses on early childhood development in low- and middle-income-countries, particularly on issues related to program quality measurement and improvement.
Brandon Neal Edwards
Interests: Religious Studies, Higher Education, Democracy, Politics, American Religion, Civics
A Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandon Edwards studies religion, democracy, and education. Specifically, he uses ethnographic methods to examine how religious beliefs in evangelical communities impact views of higher education among adolescents.
Jorge Encinas
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics, Higher Education Policy, Immigration, Policy, Workforce Development,
Jorge Encinas researches policies that affect postsecondary access and affordability, as well as the labor market outcomes of college through an economic lens. He focuses on how these policies affect underrepresented minorities and undocumented students.
Anne-Michelle Engelstad
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Childhood, Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Neurodivergent Learners, Cognitive Neuroscience
Anne-Michelle Engelstad utilizes cognitive neuroscience approaches to measure responses to early intervention in children with autism.
Avriel Epps-Darling
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Data Science, Adolescent Development, Human Computer Interaction, Identity Development, Social Media, Algorithmic Bias, Race
Computational Social Scientist studying the disparate impact of machine learning and AI on youth's developmental processes.
Tianyi (Diana) Feng
Interests: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Multimodal Learning Analytics, Data Science, Instructor-Student Relationships, Peer Relationships, Remote Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Diana Feng's interests center on the development and assessment of instructor-student bonds and peer relationships in remote learning scenarios.
Janelle Fouche
Interests: Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation, Prison Education, Higher Education, Equity, Race, Economics
Janelle Fouche is a Ph.D. student at HGSE and a Wiener Ph.D. Scholar in Poverty & Justice in the Inequality & Social Policy Program at HKS. Her research interests lie at the intersection of education policy and the penal system, as she believes the two are inextricably linked to issues of race, inequality, and opportunity.
Martha C. Franco
Interests: Unaccompanied Minors, Adolescents, Immigration, Refugees, Central American Students, Transnational Ties, Citizenship
Martha C. Franco is a Ph.D. student. Her research focuses on how Central American unaccompanied minors are incorporated into U.S. public schools and the U.S. more broadly.
Simone Fried
Interests: Policy, Organizations, Reform, Social Politics, Turnaround, Takeover, State Education Agencies
Simone Fried's research examines the role and capacity of state education agencies in school reform, particularly in the implementation of school district takeovers.
Lily Fritz
Interests: Social-Emotional Learning, Early Childhood, Ecological Influences, Developmental Science, Preschool, Education, Psychology
Lily Fritz is interested in understanding the contextual factors that influence children's early social-emotional development, with a particular focus on the conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement of the emotional environments of early childhood education contexts.
Alexis Gable
Interests: Higher Education, Economics, Community Colleges, College Access, Career and Technical Education, Career Readiness
Alexis Gable's work lies at the intersection of economics and higher education, with a focus on college- and career-readiness, community colleges, and labor market outcomes. She is also interested in studying expectations around and barriers to college access.
Charles Gale
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics of Education, International Education, Education Policy, Education Finance, Early Childhood Education, Early Literacy,
Charlie Gale is a Ph.D. candidate whose current research focuses on education finance, early literacy, and early childhood education. He previously worked as a research associate for FHI 360, supporting (quasi-)experimental evaluations of education programs in international settings.
Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Mathematics Education, Student Discourse and Math Talk, Pedagogy, Math Emotions, Motivation, Expectancy Effects, Teacher Biases
Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith is interested in understanding the mechanisms that contribute to disparities in secondary mathematics education, particularly teacher and student characteristics such as emotions, beliefs, and biases, and how they intersect with pedagogy and learning.
Madelyn Gardner
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Education, Social Policy, Applied Developmental Science, Ecological Approaches, Educator Supports
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.
Tatiana Geron
Interests: Philosophy of Education, Educational Justice, Decision-Making, Ethics, Case Study Method, Non-Ideal Theory, Teaching Practice
Tatiana Geron's research intersects political theory, philosophy of education, and teaching practice to examine ethical decision-making in education and the classroom as non-ideal space. Prior to the doctoral program, she taught middle-school English and social studies in Boston and New York.
Abhinav Ghosh
Interests: International and Comparative Education, Mathematics Education, Science and Technology Studies, History.
Abhinav Ghosh's research interests span across both international & comparative education and mathematics education. Specifically, he examines the cultural politics and genealogies of curricula, pedagogies, assessments, and discourses.
Rosa Guzman
Interests: Literacy, Digital Media, Language, Equity, Early Childhood
Rosa Guzman is a third-year Ph.D. student whose research interests lie in the intersection between language, literacy, and technology. She is interested in how technology is shaping children's literacy and language development and ultimately find tools that can help children be better prepared for kindergarten.
Paulina Haduong
Interests: Design Based Research, Participatory Action Research, Constructionism, Computer Science, Civics, Connected Learning, Learner Identity
Paulina Haduong's research supports K-12 students and teachers in building learning communities in computer science and civic education.
Shirin Hashim
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Education Policy, Economics of Education, Accountability Policy, Education Technology, Teacher Effectiveness
Rebecca Horwitz-Willis
Interests: Race and Equity, Law, Education, and Society, Implicit Bias, Institutional Theory, Socio-Legal Studies
Rebecca Horwitz-Willis' research takes a socio-legal and institutional approach to analyzing racial equity in schools. Specifically, she is interested in the relationship between macro-level social structures and individual perceptions of school quality and belonging in schools.
James Jack
Interests: Sociology of Education, Organizational Change and Persistence, Teaching and Learning
James Jack explores the sociology of education with a current interest in how organizations and individuals organize teaching and learning and how historical/biographical, social, and material processes reproduce and transform those practices.
Liu Jiang
Interests: Ethnography, Civic Education, Moral Education, Anthropology, Peer Culture, Student Government, China
Liu Jiang's research focuses on practices of peer governance in Chinese classrooms. As an ethnographer, she is interested in understanding how Chinese youth negotiate their civic roles as well as ethical judgment through these everyday practices.
Raquel Jimenez
Interests: Arts Education, Youth Culture, Ethnography, Minoritized Youth, Civic Participation
Raquel Jimenez is a Ford Foundation Fellow studying young artists and the creative learning communities that support them. Her dissertation uses ethnographic methods to explore how young people make sense of their social worlds through the arts in sanctuary cities.
Jane M. Kang
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Computer Science, Mathematics, Teaching Practice, Classroom Practice, Creativity, Curriculum
Jane Kang focuses on instructional practices in K-12 computer science and mathematics. Her dissertation is about understanding why and how high school computer science teachers engage students in creative work.
Thomas Kelley-Kemple
Interests: Policy, Measurement, Organizational Structures, Secondary Schools, Data Use
Thomas Kelley-Kemple focuses on examining school level determinants of policy implementation and effectiveness. He is primarily interested in understanding how schools use data to improve and support student success.
Salman Khan
Interests: Education Policy, Economics of Education, Higher Education Policy, Labor Economics
Salman Khan seeks to investigate the challenges that disadvantaged (typically low-income, first generation, and minority) students face as they progress through their educational pathways into the labor market.
Anna Kirby
Interests: Social Development, Relationships, Critical Pedagogy, CPAR, Arts Education,
Anna Kirby is a Ph.D. student interested in supporting children’s social development and promoting meaningful collaboration between researchers, educators, and families.
Kate Klenk Larned
Interests: Policy Analysis, School Reform, Economics, School Context and Culture, Social Emotional Learning, Measurement
Kate Klenk Larned's research interests include education policy analysis and the economics of education, with a focus on K-12 organizational effectiveness and the use and measurement of non-tested skills and outcomes.
Emma Klugman
Interests: Policy, Statistics, Measurement, Fairness, STEM Education, Statistics Education, Equity
Emma Klugman's work advocates for thoughtful, fair, and responsible uses of data in education, bringing together statistics, data science, and educational measurement with policy applications.
Mary Laski
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics of Education, Teacher Quality, Labor Economics, Equity, Program Evaluation, Quantitative Methods, Causal Inference
Mary Laski is a Ph.D. student and Partnering in Education Research (PIER) fellow. She studies education policy and the economics of education, with a focus on teacher effectiveness and development.
Jaein Josefina Lee
Interests: Higher Education, Immigrant Integration, Institutions, Equity, Immigrant Students, Minority Students, Community Engagement
Jaein Josefina Lee's research focuses on immigrant students in higher education.
Ka Ya Lee
Interests: Philosophy of Education, Educational Justice, Measurement, Capability Approach, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Philosophy
Ka Ya Lee's research interests lie in educational justice. More specifically, she is interested in the demands of justice in educational measurement and the application of the Capability Approach/Theory in education.
Matthew Lenard
Interests: Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, Teacher Quality, Economics, School Improvement, Achievement Gap, Equity
Matthew Lenard studies program and policy impacts at the K-12 and postsecondary levels. His recent projects have explored the effects of comprehensive school reform, career and technical education, and gifted education interventions.
Zachary Lim
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Political Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Metaphilosophy, Research Methodology
Zachary Lim examines how research as an institution meets the epistemic demands of society as well as the role research training programs play in its successes and failures. His work draws mainly from epistemology, the history and philosophy of science, and political theory.
Virginia Lovison
Interests: Economics of Education, Teacher Quality
Virginia Lovison is a Ph.D. student and Partnering in Education Research (PIER) fellow at Harvard University. She studies the economics of education with a focus on K-12 teacher quality.
Dylan Lukes
Interests: Policy, Economics, Education, Labor Economics, Econometrics, Technology, Consulting
Dylan Lukes is a Ph.D. student and Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. He studies the economics of education with a focus on technology and learning.
Farah Mallah
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics of Education, Inequality, Migration, Economic Mobility, Resource Targeting
Farah Mallah is a Ph.D. student and a PIER Fellow at CEPR. Her research investigates variations across groups in investments in education and the effectiveness of policies designed to address these gaps, with a focus on low-income and immigrant household.
Jeremy T. Murphy
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: School Reform, Secondary Teachers, History of the Teaching Profession, Progressive Pedagogies, Complexities of Teaching, School Culture
Jeremy T. Murphy uses qualitative and historical research methods to examine teachers’ complex relationships with school reform. Before coming to Harvard, he taught middle and high school English in Baltimore, Worcester, and New Bedford.
Zid Mancenido
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Teacher Education, Professional Development, Teacher Labor Markets, Teachers' Lives, Causal Inference, Quantitative Methods, Policy Evaluation
Zid Mancenido's research focuses on how school systems can recruit, train, and retain excellent teachers. He investigates how to recruit more high-achieving college graduates into teaching, and runs experiments in teacher preparation programs.
Hania Mariën
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Youth/Critical Participatory Action Research (YPAR/CPAR), Arts-based/Creative Methods, Critical Participatory Action Research
Hania Marien's work focuses on Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) with third-fifth grade students, and how they make sense of power and act on (in)justice in the context of these projects. She is also interested in arts-based methods, and integrating fun and joy into her research.
Parastoo Massoumi
Interests: Race, Equity, Middle School to College Pipeline, Intersectionality, College Access, Youth Leadership, Activism
Parastoo Massoumi is interested in studying the systemic inequities impacting communities of color and their intersectional identities (ie: gender, class, ability, citizenship status, sexual orientation, etc.) within the middle school to college pipeline.
Michael McGarrah
Interests: Curiosity, Cognitive Development, Affective Development, Self-Regulation, Emotions, Executive Function, Information-Processing
Michael McGarrah is a Ph.D. student studying the intersections of cognitive and affective development across early childhood and adolescence. Currently, he is conducting research on what makes people curious, how curiosity develops over time, and how it impacts learning.
Kailah Lee McGee
Interests: Curriculum, Power, Critical Consciousness/Imagination, Whiteness, Civics, Moral Development, History Education
Kailah Lee McGee is interested in how (in)visibility of power in curricular narratives of US nation-building influences White/Euro-American students' evaluations of harm, fairness, personal responsibility, & possibility in society.
Eileen McGivney
Interests: Educational Technology, Learning Sciences, Virtual Reality, Immersive Learning
Eileen McGivney researches the potentials and challenges of learning with immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, particularly for young people of diverse identities and cultural backgrounds.
Emily Meland
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.
Michał Miąskiewic
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Developmental Psychology, Social and Moral Development, Meta-Cognitive Development, Empathy, Intellectual Humility, Socialization, Educational Interventions
Michał Miąskiewic studies how children and adolescents come to understand and (sometimes) care for others, and how they acquire and (sometimes) learn to overcome confirmation bias in thinking, with implications for how parents and schools can teach moral and intellectual virtue.
Alfatah Moore
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Literacy, Reading, Interventions, Fluency
Alfatah Moore’s research examines the design of reading interventions for emerging readers and children with reading difficulty, with a focus on the role of fluency in reading achievement.
Douglas Mosher
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Vocabulary Development, Literacy, Academic Language, Pedagogy, Literacy Interventions, Reading Comprehension, Reading Intervention
Doug Mosher studies vocabulary development in students in the early education and how content literacy interventions impact teacher-language use. He also studies how students build domain knowledge through reading and how they transfer new knowledge to other conceptual domains.
Nozomi Nakajima
Interests: Inequality, Economics, Statistics, Causal Inference, International Development, Policy, Gender
Nozomi Nakajima's research focuses on how education policy interacts with family life to maintain and reduce inequality.
Tara Nicola
Interests: Higher Education, Policy, Equity, Postsecondary Transitions
Tara Nicola's research focuses on issues concerning access, choice, and equity in higher education. She is especially interested in evaluating policies related to the college admission process.
Chris Norris-LeBlanc
Interests: Mathematics, Education, Curriculum, Teacher Training, Equity, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory
Chris Norris-LeBlanc is interested in bringing heuristics, concepts, and skills from University mathematics into high schools through curricular innovation and teacher training. He hopes to use these as tools to make mathematics education more impactful and equitable.
Abigail Orrick
Interests: Education Reform, Philanthropy, School Governance, Political Epistemology, Social Movements, Qualitative Methods
Abigail Orrick studies the sociological dimensions of community organizing, philanthropy, and education policy. Specifically, she explores how communities navigate uncertainty in education or politically divisive reforms, as well as how race, trust, and memory shape policymaking.
MG Prezioso
Interests: Children's Literature, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual Development, Moral Development, Social-Emotional Learning, Literary Theory
MG Prezioso's research lies at the intersection of psychology and literature. Specifically, she is interested in the process of children's narrative absorption, as well as how literature contributes to students' moral development and identity formation.
Santiago Pulido-Gomez
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: School Culture, Teacher Education, Organizational Behavior, Institutional Change, Education Policy
Santiago Pulido-Gomez is passionate about studying the determinants of teaching and teacher quality, and understanding how school culture shapes professional development practices for teachers. He utilizes elements from adult development theory and organizational behavior in answering these questions.
Swati Puri
Interests: Citizenship, Elitism, International Education
Focusing on elite groups in India, Swati Puri studies how educational practices serve sites for constructing meanings of social status and citizenship. Prior to HGSE, she worked for eight years across nonprofit, international development, and research organizations in India.
Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza
Interests: Policy, Economics, South America, Developing Countries, Equity, Gender
Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza is researching educational policy evaluation in South America and developing countries, with a focus on socioeconomic and gender inequality.
Celia Reddick
Interests: Migration, displacement, refugee education, language of instruction policies and practices, multilingual learning, Africa and African diaspora
Celia Reddick's research explores the intersection of language, migration, and education. Her dissertation focuses in particular on the relationship between the languages used in schools and communities and refugee children's learning, identity-development, and sense of belonging in urban settings in East Africa.
Sarah A. Rendon Garcia
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Mixed Status Families, Latin/x Families, Developmental Psychology, Social-Emotional Development, Caregiver-Child Relationships, Middle Childhood, Immigration
Sarah Rendon Garcia studies how U.S. undocumented immigration status shapes the developmental trajectories of Latine children in middle childhood (independently, within their caregiver-child dyads, and as a family).
Zenzile Riddick
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Black Education, History, Critical Theory, Decolonial Theory, Pedagogy, Urban Education
Zenzile Riddick is a third year Ph.D. student researching the historical and contemporary landscape of Black educational institutions, leadership, and achievement. Currently, she studies the institutional culture and pedagogical practices of Black-led alternative education models.
Susha Roy
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics, Public Policy, Inequality, Segregation, Stratification, School Choice
Susha Roy uses quantitative methods to study how social stratification both manifests and persists through the education system and what specific policies can help mitigate social and economic inequalities.
Megan Satterthwaite Freiman
Interests: Ethnic-Racial Identity, Adolescent Development, Equity, Whiteness, Ethnic-Racial Socialization
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.
Lena Shi
Interests: Higher Education, School Finance, College Access, Mobility, Inequality, Civic Participation, Economics of Education
Lena Shi studies the effects of higher education policies on mobility, inequality, diversity and inclusion, and civic participation.
Mikko Silliman
Interests: Policy, Labor Economics, Inequality
Mikko Silliman's research focuses on questions at the intersection of education policy and labor economics.
Allison Mee Stevens
Based on Allison Mee Stevens' connections to both extremely conservative and liberal areas, her work compares politically divergent approaches to preventing school shootings. Through understanding and emphasizing moral commonalities, she hopes to develop a pragmatic framework to keep students safe in school.
Eileen Sullivan
Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, School Readiness, Executive Functions, Language Development, Early Adversity
Eileen Sullivan researches how early experiences impact children’s cognition. She employs behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how risk and protective factors relate to the brain and behavioral development of children in the U.S. and internationally.
Gahyun Sung
Interests: Learning Analytics, Instructional Design, Big Data in Education, Multimodal Learning Analytics, Programming Education
Gahyun Sung is a Ph.D. student interested in using sensor data in learning analytics and discovering how the results of learning analytics could best be interpreted and disseminated to students and teachers.
Eric Torres
Interests: Moral Education, Partisanship, Reason, Social Psychology, Moral Development, Epistemology, Philosophical Practice
Eric Torres is interested in the nature of affiliation and alienation across ideology and political difference and the related applied questions.
Kemeyawi Wahpepah
Interests: K-12 Education, Teachers, Antiracism, Decolonization, Cultural Sociology
Kemeyawi Wahpepah is interested in using qualitative methods to study antiracist and decolonial policies and teaching practices in K-12 schools in the United States.
Zhongyu Wei
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Language and Literacy Development, Early Childhood, Adult-Child Interaction, Socio-Cognitive Development, Reading Engagement
Zhongyu Wei’s research focuses on language and literacy development of children from diverse cultural backgrounds. She is particularly interested in the role of adult-child interactions in shaping children’s literacy and socio-cognitive development.
Wendy Wei
Interests: Early Childhood Development, Social Policy, Early Childhood Education, Attendance, Contexts
Wendy Wei is interested in understanding how contextual factors can promote children’s access to high-quality early educational experiences and their developmental outcomes, as well as examining the predictors and consequences of early school attendance.
Benjamin West
Interests: Literacy, Social-Emotional Skills, Measurement, Evaluation, Policy, Elementary, Psychometrics
Benjamin West's research aims to improve our ability to measure literacy and social-emotional skill development among early learners. He also studies the effects of policies and programs that teach these skills in elementary schools.
Andrew An Westover
Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Gender, Sexuality, Religious Studies, Arts Education, Forgiveness
Andrew Westover is an ethicist who focuses on education. Westover's interdisciplinary work draws from moral philosophy, creative practices, queer theory, and practical ethics. Their dissertation focuses on teacher/student conflict and the possibilities of forgiveness.
Fei Yuan
Interests: Policy , International Development , Program Evaluation , Economics, Developing Countries
Fei Yuan‘s research focuses on identifying effective interventions to improve student learning in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in providing robust evidence to answer policy-relevant questions.
Arkadijs Zvaigzne
Interests: Higher Education, Policy, Finance, Enrollment
Arkadijs Zvaigzne is interested in higher education finance, college enrollment management, and how the two interact in small countries.