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CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Psychometrics, Causal Inference, International Settings, Impact Evaluation, Measurement
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Infant-Toddler Care and Development, Relational Quality, Early Childhood Workforce, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Cross-Cultural & Cross-Context
Megan Shahnooshi is generally interested in early relational development between infants, toddlers, and their non-kin caregivers.
INTERESTS: Policy, K-12, School Choice, Vouchers, Education Savings Accounts, Accountability, Funding
David Struhs studies U.S. education policy, school choice, accountability, and funding.
INTERESTS: Biculturalism, Cognitive Flexibility, Social Adjustment, Cross-Cultural Context on Development, Identity Development
Guicheng “Ariel” Tan is interested in studying how people integrate different cultures, and what are the cognitive and developmental implications of cultural integration.
CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: Black Studies, Educational Policy, History
INTERESTS: Creative Computing, Computer Science Education, Identity, Agency, Youth Participatory Design, Human-Computer Interaction
Jacob Wolf's research explores how young people learn about computing in formal and informal learning settings and how this learning shapes the relationships young people have with technology in their everyday lives.
INTERESTS: Applied Developmental Science, Explanations, Intuitions, Metaphors
INTERESTS: Computer Science Education, Generative AI
Stephanie Yang's research focuses on computer science education, with particular emphasis on understanding debugging. She studies how students learn to troubleshoot code and the impact of generative AI tools in CS education.
INTERESTS: Arts Education, Equity, Civic Education, Immigrants, Transnationalism, Aesthetics, Ethnography
Hwa Pyung is a mixed-methods researcher specializing in multicultural education. Prior to Harvard, Pyung has worked as a language teacher, non-profit director, and analyst for large-scale policy evaluations.
INTERESTS: Parent-Child Long-Distance Interaction, Chinese Rural Stay-Behind Children, Family Separation, Parent Education, SEL Programs in Low-Resource Communities
Yuhan Zhong's research focuses on understanding Chinese rural separated families' experiences of connection and disconnection. She wants her work to promote the wellbeing of Chinese rural stay-behind children by engaging and collaborating with important adults in their lives.