The following is a directory of students currently enrolled in the 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 | Ph.D. Students
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
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Language-In-Education Policy, Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, Epistemic Injustice, Refugee Education
Maya Alkateb-Chami’s research is concerned with the role of schooling in fostering equitable and just futures, with a focus on language of instruction policies in multilingual contexts.
Lily An
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Measurement, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Accountability Policy, Equity, Fairness
Lily An studies educational measurement and causal inference as a Ph.D. student and Presidential Scholar at HGSE. Her research involves analyzing and improving standardized assessments, policies, and evaluation methods that involve test scores.
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.
Mamfatou Baldeh
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Black, Adolescence, Intersectionality, Interventions, Relationships
Mamfatou Baldeh is a Ph.D. student in the AERID lab working with Dr. Adriana Umana-Taylor. Her research interests center the education, identity development, and relationship-building experiences of adolescent Black girls and other students of color.
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.
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.
D'Wayne Bell
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Higher Education, Inequality, Policy, College Access, Mobility
D'Wayne Bell is interested in higher education, inequality, and higher education policy. He is especially interested in the role that higher education plays in reducing, or reproducing, inequality.
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
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Higher Education, Policy, Ethics
Megan Bogia's research centers on policy ethics and higher education. Specifically, she combines empirical and normative analyses to examine dilemmas in postsecondary policy like issues of college access and the free public college debate.
Edwin Chng
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Multimodal Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Computer Vision
Edwin Chng is a Ph.D. student at Harvard. His research interest lies in the extraction of relevant student information from classrooms 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
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Childhood Development, Violence Against Children, Physical Punishment, Causal Inference, Impact Evaluation, Parenting Programs, Prevention
Jorge Cuartas' research focuses on early childhood development and parenting in global contexts, the effects of corporal punishment and other forms of violence on children's neural, cognitive, and socioemotional development, and the development and evaluation of violence prevention programs.
Caitlin Dermody
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Childhood Education and Care, Policy, Social and Emotional Learning, Early Learning, Emotions, Systems Thinking
Caitlin M. Dermody is a rising scholar committed to investigating the pedagogical practices and policy conditions that best support young children’s development. Her research interests include early childhood education and care and social and emotional learning.
Mikayla My Do
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural, Mixed Methods, Career Development
Mikayla My Do's research focuses broadly on the development of adolescents, the transition from adolescence into adulthood, and the social, cultural contexts in studying positive youth development.
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: Higher Education Policy, Economics, Immigration, Workforce Development,
Jorge Encinas researches postsecondary success policies, as well as the transition from college to the labor market 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.
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
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Higher Education, Workforce Development, Economics of Education, Community Colleges, Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness
Alexis Gable's research lies at the intersection of education and employment. She explores non-4-year-degree pathways and workforce development using mixed methods research designs, especially causal inference and qualitative interviews.
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.
Josh Gilbert
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Data, Statistics, Quantitative, Measurement, Transfer, Simulation, Psychometrics
Josh Gilbert is interested in the application of quantitative methods and statistical methodology to causal inference in education.
Ron Grady
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Childhood, Social and Emotional Development, Classrooms, Pedagogy, Identity, Childhoods, Preschool
Ron Grady is interested in the children's experience in and narratives of relationship within early contexts that value SEL. I am also curious about how educators in such spaces create and sustain environments of safety, warmth, and welcome for all children.
Roohullah Gulzari
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Education Policy, Organizational Change, Economics of Education, Teacher Effectiveness, School Governance, Policy Analysis,
Roohullah Gulzari’s research interests are in economics of education at the K-12 level. His work particularly focuses on school organizational effectiveness and its association with teacher productivity and student learning outcomes.
Jen Ha
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Higher Education, College Access, Equity, Critical Theory, Writing Pedagogy
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: Economics of Education, Educational Technology, Program Evaluation, Labor Economics, Education Policy
Shirin Hashim 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 technology and learning.
Julian Hayes
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Workforce Development
Julian Hayes is interested in alternative workforce pathways for young adults who do not have a four-year college degree.
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
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Sociology of Education, Institutional Reproduction, Institutional Change, Hidden Curriculum
James Jack focuses on how formal educational organizations and learning spaces reproduce and transform institutions.
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.
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.
Bri Kightlinger
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Quantitative Methods, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Quality, Teacher Development
Bri Kightlinger studies the policies and programs affecting the U.S. teacher workforce. Her research involves using causal inference to determine best practices for teacher preparation.
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.
Soojung Lee
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: International Education, Philanthropy, Education Finance, Inequity, Organization Theory, Global Governance
Soojung Lee studies how education policies can improve governance and equity on a global scale. Primarily using the quantitative methodology, her research examines U.S. philanthropic foundations’ international grantmaking.
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.
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.
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.
Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Teachers, Peer Learning, Social Networks, Collaboration, Secondary Education
Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo is researching teachers on-the-job learning and school conditions and policies to support it.
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
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Educational Technology, International and Comparative Education, Fidelity of Implementation, Diffusion of Innovation, Teachers and Teaching Practices, Learning Sciences, Learning Analytics
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.
Melina Melgoza
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Ethnic Studies, Critical Pedagogy, K-12 Curriculum Reform, Ethnic-Racial Identity Development, Instruction and Pedagogy, Teaching Practice, Equity
Melina Melgoza is a Ph.D. student. She is interested in researching the impacts of critical pedagogy, humanizing pedagogy, and ethnic studies in educational contexts. Prior to the doctoral program, she taught high school social studies and ethnic studies in Los Angeles, CA.
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.
Brein Mosely
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Quantitative Methods, Equity, Math Education, Statistics, Race
Brein Mosely is interested in using quantitative methods to improve educational equity.
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.
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.
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
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Literature, Literacy, Child Development, Curriculum
MG Prezioso focuses on the intersection of literature and psychology. Specifically, she is interested in the process of children’s story world absorption, as well as how literature contributes to students’ intellectual and personal development.
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.
Anakaren Quintero Davalos
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Higher Education, Campus Counterspaces, Immigrant Origin, Undocumented Students, Retention
Anakaren Quintero Davalos is passionate about educational equity and accessibility and believe established counterspaces for traditionally marginalized students, i.e. undocumented students, in higher education have powerful impact in the personal and academic trajectory of students.
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 of Education, Education Policy, Causal Inference, Quantitative Methods, Inequality, Segregation, Program Evaluation
Susha Roy is a Ph.D. candidate and 2022 NAEd/Spencer dissertation fellow. She is an education economist who uses quasi-experimental and experimental methods to study how systemic inequality manifests and persists through the education system.
Elizabeth Salinas
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: College Affordability, Higher Education, State Policy, Equity, Student Success, Social Mobility
Liz Salinas is a Ph.D. student at HGSE. She is interested in higher education policy, and more specifically, she hopes to examine need-based college affordability policies that support students with costs beyond tuition.
Megan Satterthwaite-Freiman
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
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.
Jonathan Seiden
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Early Childhood Development, Psychometrics, Causal Inference, International Settings, Impact Evaluation, Measurement
Jonathan Seiden's research is situated at the intersection of early child development, psychometrics, and causal inference, with a focus on international and cross-cultural contexts.
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.
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.
Christian Walkes
Concentration: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
Interests: Black Studies, Educational Policy, History
Christian Walkes' dissertation research studies an African American school community in the segregated South to examine how educators and school leaders sheltered their institution and children from the antiblack violence of Southern Redemption.
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.
Michelle Wong
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Applied Developmental Science, Explanations, Intuitions, Metaphors
Qianru Tiffany Yang
Concentration: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
Interests: Early Childhood Stem Learning, Mathematical Development, Scientific Thinking, Parent-Child Interaction, Parental Input, Cross-Cultural Research
Tiffany Yang’s research focuses on early childhood STEM learning from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, she is interested in the role of home learning environment and parent-child interaction in children’s mathematical and cognitive development.
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.
Arkādijs Zvaigzne
Concentration: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
Interests: Inequality, Higher Education, Workforce Development, Policy, Economics
Arkādijs Zvaigzne addresses inequality through higher education and workforce development.