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CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Sociology of Education, Institutional Reproduction, Institutional Change, Hidden Curriculum
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Education Policy, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Inequality Mobility, Machine Learning Methods
Sara Ji is a first year Ph.D. student and a presidential scholar at Harvard studying education policy and the economics of education. Her main research interests lie in applied econometrics, the economics of education, and labor economics, with a focus on inequality.
INTERESTS: Quantitative Methods, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Quality, Teacher Development
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Math Education, Remedial Math Instruction, Educational Psychology, Secondary Education, Equity
Maddie Clark is interested in the psychological processes behind math learning and the ways in which we can harness those to lessen inequity and knowledge gaps in U.S. secondary classrooms.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Measurement, Causal Inference, Low and Middle Income Countries, Approaches to Learning, Early Interventions
Kenji Kitamura's work focuses on early childhood development (ECD) measurement and intervention issues from an international perspective. He is particularly interested in children's approaches to learning and mechanisms of long-term impact of early intervention.
INTERESTS: Higher Education, Diversity, Social Mobility, Policy, Economics
Jostin Kitmang is interested in studying the effects of financial aid policies and public universities in developing countries and understanding the barriers that low-income students face in pursuing college studies and an academic career.
INTERESTS: Statistics Education, Data Science Education, Ethics & Equity, Psychometrics & Measurement, Quantitative Methods, High-Stakes Testing Policies
Emma Klugman is a statistician and psychometrician. Her dissertation research focuses on the teaching of data science and statistics. She developed the HGSE course “Big Data, Surveillance, Algorithmic Bias, and Ethics in Education Data Science”.
INTERESTS: Teachers Policy, Economics, Quantitative Analysis, Causal Inference
Mary Laski uses econometric and quantitative methods to research education policy, with a particular focus on teacher quality, teacher labor markets, and the principal's role in school improvement.
INTERESTS: International Education, Philanthropy, Education Finance, Inequity, Organization Theory, Global Governance
INTERESTS: Immigration, Critical Theory, Higher Education, College Access, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Food and Agriculture
Emma Lezberg is an interdisciplinary migration scholar investigating the effects of immigration law and immigration status on families and young people in the United States.