Doctoral Alumni

Ari Anisfeld
COE Fellow: 2020-2021
Dissertation: Bridges and Barriers: Essays on Integration, Social Learning, and Access to Education

Jacob Butts
COE Fellow: 2019-2020
Dissertation: Grasping Number: Investigating Children's Understanding of Number Gestures and Their Role in Number Word Learning

Rohen Shah
COE Fellow: 2020-2021
Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Education

Emileigh Harrison
COE Fellow 2020-2021
Dissertation: What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Formal, Informal, and Non-Traditional Educational Content

Maria Adelaida Martinez
COE Fellow 2017-2018
Dissertation: Essays on Development Economics in Latin America

Cintia Hinojosa
COE Fellow 2017-2018
Dissertation: Critical Narratives Counter Psychological and Structural Barriers to Racial Equity

Esperanza Johnson
COE Fellow 2017-2018
Dissertation: Essay on Economics of Higher Education

Harshil Sahai
COE Fellow 2017-2018

Eos Trinidad
COE Fellow 2019-2020
Dissertation: Organizational Networks and School Improvement: The Spread of Early Warning Indicators in a Decentralized Educational System

Natalie Brezack
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Does Active Experience Support Children's Learning from Instruction?

Neil Cholli
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Essays on Social Policy Reforms and Human Capital

Bridgette Davis
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Access Delayed; Success Denied: How Administrative Burdens Shape College Opportunity for First-Generation, Low-Income Students

Karlyn Gorski
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: On Edge: Adolescent Learning at the Periphery of Schooling

Sireen Irsheid
COE Fellow 2017-2018
Dissertation: Understanding the Impact of Educational and Noneducational Structures of Opportunity and Disinvestment on Students Overage for Grade

Natalie Jerkins Dowling
IES Fellow 2016-2017

David Knight
IES Fellow 2015-2016

Helen Lee
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Discussing Race: Pathways and Barriers to Critical Consciousness Development for Chinese American Youth

Valerie Michelman
IES Fellow 2016-2017

Madeleine Oswald
COE Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Giving Number Words a Hand: Iconic Gesture’s Role in Supporting Children’s Math Language Development

Nancy Pantoja
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Child Math Achievement: Relation to Self-Relevant Math Attitudes, Parent Math Attitudes, and Parent Talk

Hilary Tackie
IES Fellow 2016-2017
Dissertation: Disruption: Finding Humanizing Opportunities in the COVID-19 Impacted Classroom

Deena Bernett
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: Memory For Arithmetic Facts Learned by Rote Memorization versus via Algorithmic Computation

Cristina Carazza
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: Parent Attitudes about Young Children's Math Learning: Connections to Parent Math Support and Child Math Outcomes

Sarah Cashdollar
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: Career and Technical Education in the Era of College and Career Readiness: Influences on Youth Postsecondary Aspirations in "Oaksburg, USA"

Jalisha Jenifer (Braxton)
IES Fellow: 2015-2016
Dissertation: Calculated Avoidance: The Role of Effort-Based Valuations in the Relation between Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance

Ezra Karger
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: Essays on the Measurement of Income in Economic Analysis

Darnell Leatherwood
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: A National Assessment of School District Variation in Black Student Academic Achievement

Jennifer Lu
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: Emerging deictic systems shaped by language, modality, and social interaction

David McMillon
IES Fellow: 2015-2016
Dissertation: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Three Essays on the Policy Implications of Systems Thinking

Almaz Mesghina
IES Fellow: 2015-2016
Dissertation: From Distress to "Eustress": Contextual and Cognitive Factors in the Arousal-Performance Relationship

Mariel Schwartz
IES Fellow: 2014-2015
Dissertation: The Spillover Effects of Maternity Leave Policy on Young Women's Schooling Choices

Elayne Vollman (Teska)
IES Fellow: 2015-2016
Dissertation: Learning beyond Accuracy: Evidence for Worked Examples as a Support for Students' Proportional Reasoning Gains

Kallie Clark
IES Fellow 2014-2015
Dissertation: Postsecondary Pathways in Chicago Public Schools

Ryan Heath
IES Fellow 2010-2011

Nicole Williams Beechum
IES Fellow 2009-2010
Dissertation: "Now I Have More Freedom, but More Work”: African American Boys Following the Transition to High School

Talia Berkowitz
IES Fellow 2012-2013

Russel Bittman
IES Fellow 2012-2013

Dominic Gibson
IES Fellow 2011-2012
Dissertation: Gesture’s Role in Bridging Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Representations of Number

Rebecca Hinze-Pifer
IES Fellow 2011-2012

Nolan Pope
IES Fellow 2011-2012
Dissertation: The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students

Tasha Senaca Keyes
IES Fellow 2010-2011
Dissertation: A Mixed Method Approach to Understand Factors That Promote Classroom Belonging and Engagement for High School Students

Eliza Congdon
IES Fellow 2010-2011
Dissertation: Learning Mathematics through Action and Gesture: Children's Prior Knowledge Matters

Marshall Jean
IES Fellow 2008-2009

Daniel Kimmel
IES Fellow 2007-2008
Dissertation: The Process of School Violence

Sarah Komisarow
IES Fellow 2010-2011

Miriam Novack
IES Fellow 2010-2011
Dissertation: Perceiving Movement as Representational Across the Lifespan

Caitlin Elsaesser
IES Fellow 2011-2012

Ian Filimore
IES Fellow 2009-2010

Cassiopeia Freeman
IES Fellow 2010-2011

Tae Yeun Kim
IES Fellow 2009-2010

Lauren Applebaum
IES Fellow 2009-2010

Kyung Park
IES Fellow

Emily Art
IES Fellow 2006-2007

Jonah Deutsch
IES Fellow 2008-2009 

Sarah Heller
IES Fellow 2008-2009

Amy Proger Feygin
IES Fellow 2007-2008

Gerado Ramirez
IES Fellow 2007-2008 

Daniel Ramsey
IES Fellow 2006-2007

Julia Burdick-Will
IES Fellow 2006-2007 

Elizabeth Gunderson
IES Fellow 2007-2008 

Devon Haskell Gorry
IES Fellow 2005-2006 

Chloe Hutchinson
IES Fellow 2008-2009 

Daniel Kreisman
IES Fellow 2007-2008

Andrew Mattarella Micke
IES Fellow 2006-2007

Matthew Steinberg
IES Fellow 2007-2008 

Rachel Garrett
IES Fellow 2005-2006

Sally Sadoff
IES Fellow 2005-2006

Ginger Stoker
IES Fellow 2005-2006