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Achievement Issues
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Heather C. HillHeather C. Hill is a professor in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her primary work focuses on teacher and teaching quality, and the effects of policies aimed at improving both.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Adolescence
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee is the academic chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Childrens Hospital in Boston, and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Childrens Hospital.
Gretchen Brion-MeiselsGretchen Brion-Meisels is a lecturer in the Prevention Science and Practice Program. Her research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Robert L. SelmanRobert Selman served as chair of the Human Development and Psychology area from 2000 to 2004. He is the founder within this area of the Prevention Science and Practice Program in 1992 and served as its first director through 1999.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Adult Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
Matthew MillerMatt Miller is lecturer on education and associate dean for learning and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He oversees course and curriculum planning, support of faculty- and student-led initiatives for innovation in learning and teaching, and other ongoing academic priorities of the dean's office.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Affirmative Action
Richard Chait
Richard Chait studies the management and governance of colleges and universities. Chait has expertise on terms and conditions of faculty employment, including promotion and tenure procedures, academic freedom, and faculty evaluation.
Robert W. IulianoRobert W. Iuliano is vice president and general counsel of Harvard University, and by virtue of that experience, has confronted many of the fundamental legal issues affecting higher education. He previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, prosecuting violations of federal drug, gun, and money-laundering laws.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Julie A. ReubenJulie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Alternative Schooling
Katherine K. Merseth
Katherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Arts in Education
Catherine Elgin
Catherine Elgin is a philosopher whose areas of study include the theory of knowledge, philosophy of art, and philosophy of science. Recent work considers the question of what makes something cognitively valuable.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
Shari TishmanShari Tishman is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero, where she recently served as Director. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts.
Assessment
Tina Blythe
Tina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
At-Risk Youth
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee is the academic chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Childrens Hospital in Boston, and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Childrens Hospital.
Gretchen Brion-MeiselsGretchen Brion-Meisels is a lecturer in the Prevention Science and Practice Program. Her research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Nancy HoffmanNancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit based in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Robert L. SelmanRobert Selman served as chair of the Human Development and Psychology area from 2000 to 2004. He is the founder within this area of the Prevention Science and Practice Program in 1992 and served as its first director through 1999.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Bilingual Education
Nonie K. Lesaux
Nonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.
Miao LiMiao Li received her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Literacy Education at Queen's University in Canada.
Botnets
David Malan
David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Charter Schools
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Child Abuse
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Child Care
Kathleen McCartney
Kathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Child Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Paul L. HarrisPaul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Nonie K. LesauxNonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
Robert L. SelmanRobert Selman served as chair of the Human Development and Psychology area from 2000 to 2004. He is the founder within this area of the Prevention Science and Practice Program in 1992 and served as its first director through 1999.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Terrence TivnanTerrence Tivnan teaches courses on research methods and data analysis. He has helped thousands of students get off to a good start in learning about statistics and research in education. He received his M.A.T.
David UrionDavid K. Urion, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, with majors in French and Chemistry, in 1976. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. After an internship in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he came to Children's Hospital in 1981, and has been there since then.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Civic Education
Gretchen Brion-Meisels
Gretchen Brion-Meisels is a lecturer in the Prevention Science and Practice Program. Her research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development.
Sarah Dryden-PetersonSarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Cognitive Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Paul L. HarrisPaul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Collaborative Learning
Tina Blythe
Tina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Karen BrennanKaren Brennan is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments in and out of school, online and face-to-face can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators.
Elizabeth CityLiz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
David MalanDavid J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Computer Science Education
Karen Brennan
Karen Brennan is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments in and out of school, online and face-to-face can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators.
David MalanDavid J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Computer-Assisted Instruction
David Malan
David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Counseling and Clinical Psychology
Robert Kegan
Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Holly LemHolly Lem earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. She received her clinical training at Bellevue Hospital, Yale Medical School, Columbia University and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Jacqueline ZellerJacqueline Zeller earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia. She is a licensed psychologist, school psychologist, and elementary education teacher. Her clinical interests focus on prevention and intervention efforts in schools and promoting resiliency in children.
Cultural Studies
Helen Haste
Helen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Curriculum Development
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Tina BlytheTina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Vicki A. JacobsVicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Lisa SchneierLisa Schneier was a high school teacher in the Boston Public Schools for 12 years. Her subject matter focus was English and writing, but she also taught basic literacy and math skills. She earned her Doctorate in Education under the supervision of Eleanor Duckworth at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Shari TishmanShari Tishman is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero, where she recently served as Director. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Cybersecurity
David Malan
David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Desegregation
James E. Ryan
James E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Development of children's thinking
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Digital Forensics
David Malan
David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Distance Learning
Tina Blythe
Tina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
David MalanDavid J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same in 1999, 2004, and 2007, respectively.
Diversity
Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Sarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Early Childhood Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Economy and Education
Christopher Dede
Chris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Nancy HoffmanNancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit based in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults.
Joseph P. KaltJoseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Educational Equity
Christopher Dede
Chris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Aaliyah El-AminAaliyah El-Amin is a practitioner and researcher committed to ensuring that educators have the knowledge and tools they need to disrupt systems of oppression. Her specific interest areas include liberatory education models, social justice schooling, critical pedagogy and youth participatory action research.
Educational Media
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
Emotional Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Paul L. HarrisPaul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Entrepreneurship
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Gregory M. GunnGreg Gunn co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As President, Greg created and led the product development team, shipping the award-winning mCLASS® handheld formative assessment platform.
Monica C. HigginsMonica Higgins joined the Harvard faculty in 1995 and is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership development and organizational change.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
John RichardsJohn Richards is a senior executive in education, technology and media with extensive experience in business development and strategic planning.
Ethnic Issues
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Joseph P. KaltJoseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Family Issues
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee is the academic chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Childrens Hospital in Boston, and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Childrens Hospital.
Sarah Dryden-PetersonSarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Financial Issues in Education
James P. Honan
James Honan's teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Gender
Helen Haste
Helen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
High Schools
Roberto G. Gonzales
Roberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Nancy HoffmanNancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit based in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Higher Education Administration
Richard Chait
Richard Chait studies the management and governance of colleges and universities. Chait has expertise on terms and conditions of faculty employment, including promotion and tenure procedures, academic freedom, and faculty evaluation.
Patricia Albjerg GrahamPatricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
James P. HonanJames Honan's teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration.
Robert W. IulianoRobert W. Iuliano is vice president and general counsel of Harvard University, and by virtue of that experience, has confronted many of the fundamental legal issues affecting higher education. He previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, prosecuting violations of federal drug, gun, and money-laundering laws.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
Judith Block McLaughlinJudith Block McLaughlin's work focuses on leadership and governance in higher education. As educational chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents and the Harvard Seminar for Experienced Presidents, she has had the pleasure of working with over 1000 college and university presidents since the program's inception in 1990.
Matthew MillerMatt Miller is lecturer on education and associate dean for learning and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He oversees course and curriculum planning, support of faculty- and student-led initiatives for innovation in learning and teaching, and other ongoing academic priorities of the dean's office.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Joseph P. ZolnerJoseph P. Zolner is a lecturer on education, senior director of programs, and senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) in the Office of Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As senior director of programs, he functions as PPE's chief academic officer.
Higher Education Curriculum
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Matthew MillerMatt Miller is lecturer on education and associate dean for learning and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He oversees course and curriculum planning, support of faculty- and student-led initiatives for innovation in learning and teaching, and other ongoing academic priorities of the dean's office.
Julie A. ReubenJulie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice.
Joseph P. ZolnerJoseph P. Zolner is a lecturer on education, senior director of programs, and senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) in the Office of Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As senior director of programs, he functions as PPE's chief academic officer.
History of Education
David Dockterman
David Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Patricia Albjerg GrahamPatricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor.
Julie A. ReubenJulie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Immigrant Issues
Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Sarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Intelligence
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Interdisciplinary Education
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
International Education
Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Sarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Labor Issues
Robert W. Iuliano
Robert W. Iuliano is vice president and general counsel of Harvard University, and by virtue of that experience, has confronted many of the fundamental legal issues affecting higher education. He previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, prosecuting violations of federal drug, gun, and money-laundering laws.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Language Development
Joanna A. Christodoulou
Joanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Paul L. HarrisPaul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.
David UrionDavid K. Urion, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, with majors in French and Chemistry, in 1976. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. After an internship in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he came to Children's Hospital in 1981, and has been there since then.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Miao LiMiao Li received her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Literacy Education at Queen's University in Canada.
Leadership
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Ebony N. Bridwell-MitchellEbony Bridwell-Mitchell is an associate professor of education with expertise in leadership, management, and organizations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bridwell-Mitchell's research builds on her three areas of training and study: organizational management and theory, public policy, and education.
Elizabeth CityLiz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Thomas HehirTom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Monica C. HigginsMonica Higgins joined the Harvard faculty in 1995 and is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership development and organizational change.
James P. HonanJames Honan's teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Judith Block McLaughlinJudith Block McLaughlin's work focuses on leadership and governance in higher education. As educational chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents and the Harvard Seminar for Experienced Presidents, she has had the pleasure of working with over 1000 college and university presidents since the program's inception in 1990.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Learning
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Tina BlytheTina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Katherine C. BolesKatherine Boles is a senior lecturer on education and director of the Learning and Teaching Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Vicki A. JacobsVicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Lisa SchneierLisa Schneier was a high school teacher in the Boston Public Schools for 12 years. Her subject matter focus was English and writing, but she also taught basic literacy and math skills. She earned her Doctorate in Education under the supervision of Eleanor Duckworth at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Shari TishmanShari Tishman is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero, where she recently served as Director. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Learning Disorders
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Thomas HehirTom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Nonie K. LesauxNonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
David UrionDavid K. Urion, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, with majors in French and Chemistry, in 1976. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. After an internship in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he came to Children's Hospital in 1981, and has been there since then.
Legal Issues
Robert W. Iuliano
Robert W. Iuliano is vice president and general counsel of Harvard University, and by virtue of that experience, has confronted many of the fundamental legal issues affecting higher education. He previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, prosecuting violations of federal drug, gun, and money-laundering laws.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Literacy
Joanna A. Christodoulou
Joanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Vicki A. JacobsVicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
Pamela A. MasonPamela A. Mason is director of the Language and Literacy Master's program and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab and a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Miao LiMiao Li received her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Literacy Education at Queen's University in Canada.
Management and Organizations
Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell
Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell is an associate professor of education with expertise in leadership, management, and organizations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bridwell-Mitchell's research builds on her three areas of training and study: organizational management and theory, public policy, and education.
Elizabeth CityLiz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Mathematics Education
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Heather C. HillHeather C. Hill is a professor in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her primary work focuses on teacher and teaching quality, and the effects of policies aimed at improving both.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Middle Schools
Nancy E. Hill
Nancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Minorities
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Joseph P. KaltJoseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Moral and Ethical Studies
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee is the academic chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Childrens Hospital in Boston, and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Childrens Hospital.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Julie A. ReubenJulie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Motivation
David Dockterman
David Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Multicultural Education
Haiyan Hua
Haiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Julie A. ReubenJulie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Neuroscience
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
David UrionDavid K. Urion, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, with majors in French and Chemistry, in 1976. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. After an internship in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he came to Children's Hospital in 1981, and has been there since then.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Parenting Issues
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee is the academic chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Childrens Hospital in Boston, and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Childrens Hospital.
Nancy E. HillNancy Hill is a developmental psychologist and her research identifies the unique and interactive ways in which race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status influence parenting beliefs, practices and child outcomes, especially among African American, Latino, and Euro-American children.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Philosophy of Education
Catherine Elgin
Catherine Elgin is a philosopher whose areas of study include the theory of knowledge, philosophy of art, and philosophy of science. Recent work considers the question of what makes something cognitively valuable.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Heather C. HillHeather C. Hill is a professor in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her primary work focuses on teacher and teaching quality, and the effects of policies aimed at improving both.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Laura A. SchifterLaura Schifter is a research consultant working with states and advocacy organizations to analyze data on the identification, placement, and performance of students with disabilities.
Political Theory
Meira Levinson
Meira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Politics of School Structure and Governance
Richard Chait
Richard Chait studies the management and governance of colleges and universities. Chait has expertise on terms and conditions of faculty employment, including promotion and tenure procedures, academic freedom, and faculty evaluation.
Richard ElmoreRichard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Judith Block McLaughlinJudith Block McLaughlin's work focuses on leadership and governance in higher education. As educational chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents and the Harvard Seminar for Experienced Presidents, she has had the pleasure of working with over 1000 college and university presidents since the program's inception in 1990.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Poverty and Children
Roberto G. Gonzales
Roberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Principalship
Susan Moore Johnson
Susan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Professional Development for Educators
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Tina BlytheTina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Katherine C. BolesKatherine Boles is a senior lecturer on education and director of the Learning and Teaching Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
Karen BrennanKaren Brennan is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments in and out of school, online and face-to-face can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators.
Elizabeth CityLiz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
James P. HonanJames Honan's teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Shari TishmanShari Tishman is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero, where she recently served as Director. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
Joseph P. ZolnerJoseph P. Zolner is a lecturer on education, senior director of programs, and senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) in the Office of Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As senior director of programs, he functions as PPE's chief academic officer.
Psychology
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Howard GardnerHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.
Paul L. HarrisPaul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Kathleen McCartneyKathleen McCartney, Professor of Education, Emerita, is the current president of Smith College.
Nonie K. LesauxNonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Robert L. SelmanRobert Selman served as chair of the Human Development and Psychology area from 2000 to 2004. He is the founder within this area of the Prevention Science and Practice Program in 1992 and served as its first director through 1999.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Terrence TivnanTerrence Tivnan teaches courses on research methods and data analysis. He has helped thousands of students get off to a good start in learning about statistics and research in education. He received his M.A.T.
Metta Karuna McGarveyMetta McGarvey is an adjunct lecturer on education and the faculty chair of Building Inner Strengths of Leaders for Programs in Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Meredith L. RoweMeredith Rowe is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She leads a research program on understanding the role of parent and family factors in childrens early language and literacy development.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Racial Discrimination
Josephine M. Kim
Josephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
Aaliyah El-AminAaliyah El-Amin is a practitioner and researcher committed to ensuring that educators have the knowledge and tools they need to disrupt systems of oppression. Her specific interest areas include liberatory education models, social justice schooling, critical pedagogy and youth participatory action research.
Adriana Janette Umana-TaylorAdriana Umaña-Taylor is a professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, guided by developmental and socio-cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents development and adjustment.
Reading Development
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Joanna A. ChristodoulouJoanna A. Christodoulou works at the intersection of education and neuroscience. Her program of research, conducted at MIT in the Gabrieli Lab and at MGH Institute of Health Professions, focuses on brain and behavior correlates of development, difficulties, and intervention effects for reading.
Nadine GaabNadine is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and did postdoctoral training at Stanford University and MIT.
Vicki A. JacobsVicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
Nonie K. LesauxNonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts.
Gigi LukGigi Luk's research on the cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shapes development and learning. Using neuroimaging and behavioral methods, Luk studies bilingualism as an interactional experience that shapes cognition.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
Catherine SnowCatherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Reform Issues
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Ebony N. Bridwell-MitchellEbony Bridwell-Mitchell is an associate professor of education with expertise in leadership, management, and organizations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bridwell-Mitchell's research builds on her three areas of training and study: organizational management and theory, public policy, and education.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Patricia Albjerg GrahamPatricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor.
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Thomas HehirTom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
David PerkinsDavid Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Steven SeidelSteve Seidel is the director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduction. At Project Zero, he was principal investigator on projects that study the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and documentation of learning.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Research Methods
Kurt Fischer
Kurt Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development.
Sarah Dryden-PetersonSarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies.
Haiyan HuaHaiyan Hua is lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Robert A. LeVineRobert LeVine's research concerns cultural aspects of parenthood and child development in African, Asian, Latin American, and other societies. His most recent research is on the influence of maternal schooling on reproduction and child health care in Nepal.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Bridget Terry LongBridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Long is an economist who specializes in the study of education, in particular the transition from high school to higher education and beyond.
Matthew MillerMatt Miller is lecturer on education and associate dean for learning and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He oversees course and curriculum planning, support of faculty- and student-led initiatives for innovation in learning and teaching, and other ongoing academic priorities of the dean's office.
Judith D. SingerJudith D. Singer, Ph.D., is the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity at Harvard University.
Terrence TivnanTerrence Tivnan teaches courses on research methods and data analysis. He has helped thousands of students get off to a good start in learning about statistics and research in education. He received his M.A.T.
John B. WillettJohn Willett is interested in all things quantitative, particularly statistical methods for analyzing the timing and occurrence of events; methods for modeling change, learning, and development; and longitudinal research design.
School Choice
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
School Culture
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Ebony N. Bridwell-MitchellEbony Bridwell-Mitchell is an associate professor of education with expertise in leadership, management, and organizations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bridwell-Mitchell's research builds on her three areas of training and study: organizational management and theory, public policy, and education.
Gretchen Brion-MeiselsGretchen Brion-Meisels is a lecturer in the Prevention Science and Practice Program. Her research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development.
Josephine M. KimJosephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha Warikoo is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities.
School to Work
Nancy Hoffman
Nancy Hoffman is a vice president and senior advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit based in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Science Education
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Joseph BlattJoe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Social Services and Schools
Mandy Savitz-Romer
Mandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Special Education
Thomas Hehir
Tom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
Laura A. SchifterLaura Schifter is a research consultant working with states and advocacy organizations to analyze data on the identification, placement, and performance of students with disabilities.
Miao LiMiao Li received her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Literacy Education at Queen's University in Canada.
Standards
Richard Elmore
Richard Elmore joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990, having previously taught at the College of Education, Michigan State University, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Daniel KoretzDaniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Robert B. SchwartzRobert Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration. He held a wide variety of leadership positions in education and government before joining the HGSE faculty in 1996.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Superintendency
Susan Moore Johnson
Susan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Robert KeganRobert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.
Jerome T. MurphyJerome Murphy is a specialist in the management and politics of education. His teaching and research focus on administrative practice and organizational leadership, government policy, program implementation and evaluation, and qualitative methodology.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Teacher Education
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Houman HarouniHouman Harouni's work addresses the problem of purpose in education through a multidisciplinary lens that involves history, philosophy, psychology and knowledge of specific content areas, particularly mathematics.
Teacher Education and Certification
Katherine C. Boles
Katherine Boles is a senior lecturer on education and director of the Learning and Teaching Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
Vicki A. JacobsVicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
Thomas KaneThomas Kane is an economist and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Teachers and Teachers' Unions
Katherine C. Boles
Katherine Boles is a senior lecturer on education and director of the Learning and Teaching Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Richard J. MurnaneRichard Murnane, an economist, is the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Greg Duncan, Murnane has examined the respects in which the growth in family income inequality in the U.S.
Fernando ReimersFernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation and work in the twenty first century.
Teaching and Learning
Eleanor R. Duckworth
A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth grounds her work in Piaget and Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and in their research method, which she has developed as a teaching/research approach, Critical Exploration in the Classroom.
Tina BlytheTina Blythe is a lecturer on education and a project director at Harvard Project Zero.
Karen BrennanKaren Brennan is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments in and out of school, online and face-to-face can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators.
Elizabeth CityLiz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Heather C. HillHeather C. Hill is a professor in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her primary work focuses on teacher and teaching quality, and the effects of policies aimed at improving both.
Katherine K. MersethKatherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case-method of instruction.
Jon R. StarJon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
Technology and Schools
Joseph Blatt
Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings.
Karen BrennanKaren Brennan is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments in and out of school, online and face-to-face can be designed to support young people's development as computational creators.
Christopher DedeChris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
David DocktermanDavid Dockterman operates at the intersection of research and practice. In 1982 he helped found Tom Snyder Productions, an early pioneer in educational technology, while getting his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
David H. RoseDavid Rose has been on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for over 30 years. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning.
Todd RoseTodd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.
Lisa SchneierLisa Schneier was a high school teacher in the Boston Public Schools for 12 years. Her subject matter focus was English and writing, but she also taught basic literacy and math skills. She earned her Doctorate in Education under the supervision of Eleanor Duckworth at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Barbara TreacyBarbara Treacy is a nationally recognized leader in online and blended learning who works with states, districts, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to enable them to build successful online and blended programs for educators and students.
Testing
Daniel Koretz
Daniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing.
Richard J. LightRichard Light is the Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His Ph.D. is in statistics from Harvard, and after years of teaching statistics at HGSE he currently focuses on higher education policies and controversies.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Urban Schooling
Elizabeth City
Liz City is lecturer on education and director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal, and consultant, in each role focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential.
Susan Moore JohnsonSusan Moore Johnson studies, teaches, and consults about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools.
Roberto G. GonzalesRoberto G. Gonzales is professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research centers on contemporary processes of immigration and social inequality, and stems from theoretical interests at the intersection of race and ethnicity, immigration, and policy.
Sara Lawrence-LightfootSara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.
Meira LevinsonMeira Levinson is a normative political philosopher who writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.
James E. RyanJames E. Ryan is the 11th dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A leading expert on law and education, Ryan has written extensively about the ways in which law structures educational opportunity.
Robert S. PeterkinPrior to HGSE, Robert Peterkin held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a long career in educational leadership, from special education teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Paul RevillePaul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.
Mandy Savitz-RomerMandy Savitz-Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.
Lee TeitelLee Teitel teaches courses on integrated schools and leading and coaching for equity and diversity, leadership development, partnership and networking, and on understanding organizations and how to improve them. He is the faculty director of the newly launched Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at HGSE.
Charles V. WillieCharles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life.
Richard WeissbourdRichard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program.
Women's Studies
Patricia Albjerg Graham
Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor.
Helen HasteHelen Haste is a visiting professor at HGSE and principal investigator for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Spencer Foundation-funded New Civics Early Career Scholars' Program. This supports currently 22 HGSE doctoral students whose research interests concern civic education and civic engagement.
Martha L. MinowMartha Minow, the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses have included civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop.
Writing and Literature
Vicki A. Jacobs
Vicki A. Jacobs is a lecturer on education, faculty director of the Teacher Education Program, and director of the Field Experience Program. As lecturer, Jacobs has taught courses on curriculum development, literacy and learning, and the teaching of English.
Paola UccelliPaola Uccelli is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years.