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CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Education, Human Development, Public Policy, Educator Development
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.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Data, Statistics, Quantitative, Measurement, Transfer, Simulation, Psychometrics
INTERESTS: Early Childhood, Social and Emotional Development, Classrooms, Pedagogy, Identity, Childhoods, Preschool
INTERESTS: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural, Mixed Methods, International Student Affairs, Higher Education
Nigel Gray’s research focuses on how social pressures shape adolescents' higher education choices based on gender differences and cultural variances and its resulting impacts on adolescents’ sense of purpose, belonging, and developmental pathways.
INTERESTS: Education Policy, Organizational Change, Economics of Education, Teacher Effectiveness, School Governance, Policy Analysis,
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Higher Education, College Access, Equity, Critical Theory, Writing Pedagogy
INTERESTS: Sociology of Education, Race, Ethnicity and Racism, Identity, Academic Self-Concept, Inequality, Emerging Adulthood
Zora Haque is interested in how the historical and contemporary manifestations of racial inequality shape the academic trajectories of students of color. Her research focuses broadly on how racial and ethnic identity connect to academic identity, self-concept, and achievement.
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Causal Inference, Quantitative Methods, Program Evaluation, Education Technology, Teacher Labor Markets
Shirin Hashim is an education economist who uses quasi-experimental and experimental methods to study the impact of policies and programs on student and teacher outcomes.
INTERESTS: Pedagogy, Philosophy, Teacher Education, Liberator, Justice, Equity
Justin Hauver hopes to surface how our pedagogies manifest our values, embody our fundamental stances towards existing in the world with others, and shape the kinds of people that students become alongside us.
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Workforce Development