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CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Sociology of Education, Institutional Reproduction, Institutional Change, Hidden Curriculum
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Language Development, Cognitive Development, Rural, Early Childhood, Adult-Child Interactions
Iris Jeffries is interested in how adult-child interactions in rural areas influence early childhood language and cognitive development.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Education Policy, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Inequality Mobility, Machine Learning Methods
Sara Ji is a first year Ph.D. student and a presidential scholar at Harvard studying education policy and the economics of education. Her main research interests lie in applied econometrics, the economics of education, and labor economics, with a focus on inequality.
INTERESTS: Policy, Organizational Theory, Leadership, Principal Decision-Making, Education Data Science, Computational Text Analysis
Julie Jung studies school decision-making processes through an organizational theory lens using mixed methods and computational text analysis.
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Labor Economics, Causal Inference
Samantha Kane's research interests are in the economics of education and labor economics. Her work focuses on the policies and political developments that affect student and family investments in human capital and the workforce.
INTERESTS: Philosophy of Education, Epistemology, Childhood, Philosophy of Science
Arham Kazi is interested in philosophical issues in epistemology and notions of childhood. This involves asking: How should we think about children’s epistemic abilities? And what bearing do developmental psychology and the history of childhood have on this question?
INTERESTS: Quantitative Methods, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Quality, Teacher Development
Bri Kightlinger studies the policies and programs affecting the U.S. teacher workforce. Her research seeks to understand the mechanisms behind early career teachers' returns to experience.
INTERESTS: Math Education, Remedial Math Instruction, Educational Psychology, Secondary Education, Equity
Maddie Clark is interested in the psychological processes behind math learning and the ways in which we can harness those to lessen inequity and knowledge gaps in U.S. secondary classrooms.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Measurement, Causal Inference, Low and Middle Income Countries, Approaches to Learning, Early Interventions
Kenji Kitamura's work focuses on early childhood development (ECD) measurement and intervention issues from an international perspective. He is particularly interested in children's approaches to learning and mechanisms of long-term impact of early intervention.
INTERESTS: Higher Education, Diversity, Social Mobility, Policy, Economics
Jostin Kitmang is interested in studying the effects of financial aid policies and public universities in developing countries and understanding the barriers that low-income students face in pursuing college studies and an academic career.