MA Certificate Alumni

Odunayo Akinade
Thesis: Liberation Deferred: How do Schools Impact Identity Creation in Students?

Imanol Alberro
Thesis: Narrative Structure and the Effectiveness of the Narrative to Persuade the Audience

Reilly Amera
Thesis: YouTube Kids: The Effect of YouTube on Children’s Racial Beliefs

Karen Becerra Gonzalez
Thesis: Listening to Historically Underrepresented Graduate Students: Examining How the Structure of a Higher Education Support Program Impacts Experiences, Outcomes, and Identity

Jenn Brown Griffin
Thesis: The Double Bind of Black Adolescents in Chicago Public Schools 1970s-1990s

Noel Carver
Thesis: The Autonomy Rights of Minors in Public Schools

Felix Chen
Thesis: Education in the Home Language: What it May Bring for Linguistically Minoritized Students

Declan Gunn
Thesis: Children’s Learning of Norms Related to Self-Harm and Self-Control

Minji Hong
Thesis: Whitewashed Cosmopolitanism: Making of Cosmopolitan Identity in International Schools in Asia

Alice Huang
Thesis: Privileged, Disadvantaged, or Both?: Comparing the Experiences of First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Chinese International Students at Elite US Colleges

Evangeline Kuang
Thesis: Parent-Child Fraction Talk in Home Numeracy Environment:The Role of Parental Perceptions in Predicting Parental Scaffolding Practices

Evy Lanai
Thesis: The Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment and Student Achievement: Promise, Challenges, and Outcomes

Watson Lubin
Thesis: Teaching Beyond the Screen: How Do Teachers Combat Online Misogyny Amongst Adolescent Boys?

Leticia Mercado
Thesis: “They Forgot About Us”: The Experiences of Dual Language Teachers in Southern California

Alexandra Moreno-Romero
Thesis: The Paradox of Privilege for First-Generation Latinx Students at Elite Universities

Bethany Ou
Thesis: Investigating the Association Between Social Network Size and Temperamental Fear in Infants and Toddlers

Anapaula Silva Mandujano
Thesis: Recovery of Early Literacy and Non-cognitive Skills Post-COVID-19: The Role of Teacher Insights in Shaping Educational Policy and Practices

Justin Taylor
Thesis: Civics Education in the United States: A Legacy of Failure and Hope for the Future

Elaine Zhang
Thesis: Why Do Some Students Choose to Not Consider or Decline Merit-based Scholarships at Elite Universities?

Zihui Zhang
Thesis: Stronger Anticipation, More Attention? The Predictive Role of Early Mu Desynchronization in Infants’ Later Attention to Actions

Beverly Batts
Thesis: The Social Justice Contextualization of the Schoolhouse: Reparative Curricula

Stayce Camparo
Thesis: Who is Responsible for My Child’s School-readiness? Parental Educational Efficacy Shapes Kindergarten Preparedness in the Home

Andy (Jiahe) Cao
Thesis: A “Low Quality” Group: Stigmatization and Identity Construction of Vocational School Students in China

Yinuo Ding
Thesis: Divergent Paths: Civic Engagement and Public Response to COVID-19 Lockdowns in Wuhan and Shanghai

Erin (Yuzhen) Fu
Thesis: Unveiling the Impact of Adult Emotion on Child Learning Motivation

Felix Gonzalez
 

Michael Guilmette
Thesis: Community, Connections, and Trust: Parental Social Capital in Brighton Park’s Community Schools

Ruoying He
Thesis: Parental Academic Socialization: Exploring Its Association with Adolescent Learning Engagement

Dan Inwood
 

Junyan Liu
 

Tatiana Rachlin
Thesis: Nevertheless, She Persisted: Leveraging Pretend Play and Role Models to Increase Girls’ Engagement in Science

Yuke Qian
 

Shayda Shevidi
Thesis: Embracing Neurodiversity: Exploring Inclusive Education Practices in Neurodiverse-Focused Schools

Ellen Vari
Thesis: Nevertheless, She Persisted: Leveraging Pretend Play and Role Models to Increase Girls’ Engagement in Science

Katia (Kaiwen) Yang
Thesis: Challenging Assumptions: The Role of Maternal CDS in Early Gender Socialization

Zilin Zhu
Thesis: Impact of Teachers’ Sense of Support on Students’ Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Teachers’ Beliefs

Yihan Chen
Thesis: Exploring Parent-Child Talk About Fractions: Patterns and Implications

Tamun Hanjra
Thesis: How Children Value Lives: The Framing Effect and Decision Making in Children

Olivia Kusuma
Thesis: The Impacts of the Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotypes on Southeast Asian American (SEAA) Student Educational Attainment

Jierui Li
Thesis: Harder Course, Higher Score? Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Eighth-grade Algebra Enrollment on Average Math Achievement

Joanna Mendoza
Thesis: Transmission of the Valuations of Human Lives Between Mother and Child

Katherine Shah
Thesis: Traversing the City: Examining the Impacts of Extended Commute on Student Wellbeing & High School Experience in Chicago

Mia Thacker
Thesis: Things Little Ears Might Not Want to Hear: Disgust Rhetoric and Conservative Sex Education Discourse

Yushu Zhang
Thesis: Are there educational and psychological benefits from parental school involvement for early adolescents? Evidence from the China Educational Panel Survey (CEPS)

Nícolas Zatta Soares D’Azevedo (Harris)
Thesis: Uncovering the Crucial Role of School Districts in Brazilian Education: An Empirical Analysis

Sarah Heffley (Harris)
Thesis: Language Development in Brain-Injured Children: An Exploration of Speech Therapy and Parental Responsiveness in Early Childhood

Brendon Krall (Harris)
Thesis: Does the effect of a growth mindset intervention differ by English Language Learner status?

Caroline Hebert
Thesis: Parent Responses to Children’s Expressions of Non-Binary and Nonconforming Gender Identity

Vielka Hoy
Thesis: Racialized Computational Thinking: The Case for College Admissions

Yuejiao Jiang
Thesis: Getting a Handle on Numbers: Can Cardinal Number Gestures Facilitate Preschoolers’ Understanding of Cardinal Equivalence?

Jiayu Kang
Thesis: Impacts of Free Internet Access on Engagement and Achievement among Non-Digital Learners During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Chicago Connected Program

Paritosh Kanoria
Thesis: Neither Didactic nor Distracting: Student-Centered Pedagogy for Integrating Character Education with Academic Curriculum

Michael LaGrone
 

Sinyeong Lee
Thesis: Asian Americans’attitudes toward affirmative action in college admissions

Yilin Liu
Thesis: Children’s Valuation of Significance

Youchuan (Mike) Ma
Thesis: The Effects of Bilingual Experience on the Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood

Juliana Poroye
Thesis: Closing the Black-White Academic Achievement Gap: One Raised Hand at a Time

Catherine Rock
Thesis: Gifted: Inequality and Metamorphosis

Isabelle Schellenger 
Thesis: Girls of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow: A Case Study on Alternative, Public, Single-Sex Schooling and Identity Formation

Kate Stevens
Thesis: Bicultural Ethnic Identity and Grade Point Average for Second-Generation Latinx Immigrants

Brian Vazquez
Thesis: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigrant Latine ESL Adult Learners in Philadelphia
and Community Cultural Wealth

Paige Abbott
Thesis: Precursors to Prosociality: SES and its Consequences

Kelsey Berryman
Thesis: Healing Schools: a Case Study in Mitigating the Effects of Exposure to Community Violence in Chicago Schools

Sara Feinstein
Thesis: Childcare Subsidy Instability and Child Behavior: A Study of Families in Illinois and New York

Michelle Gardner
Thesis: Pursuing Greatness at Math Corps: Changing the Way Students View Math in Detroit through
Esprit de Corps

Dylan Jacovo
Thesis: The University of Chicago Examining the Role of School Resource Officers through a Relational Trust Lens: A Case Study from the Chicago Public Schools

Cindy Kang
Thesis: Understanding the Effects of Sibling Dynamics on Parents’ Math Talk at Home

Maggie Lawler
Thesis: Race, Class, and Parental Advocacy for Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Amy Liang
Thesis: Beating The COVID-19 Slide In Education: The Impact of Pandemic-induced School Closures on Student Engagement And Education Equity in Chicago Public Schools

Dana Maier-Zucchino
Thesis: Sound of Science: Music as a means for equity in STEM education

Mierel Rehich
Thesis: Does Studying Abroad Make Individuals More Virtuous?

Emma Rudd
Thesis: It can happen to anybody:” Identity-blind rhetoric and LGBTQ inclusion in sex education dating violence prevention

Cody Schwartz
Thesis: A Bird in the Hands: the role of verbal working memory and visuo-spatial working memory in children’s receptive speech-gesture integration

Diqi Zeng
Thesis: The effect of linguistic diversity on 6-year-old children’s social preference for and epistemic perception of unfamiliar language speakers

Erika Greenia
Thesis: Social and Cultural Capital in Adolescent Identity Formation and In-School Intervention: An argument and caution for relationship-focused intervention

Hannah Higgins
Thesis: Women’s STEM Retention: A Qualitative Assessment of the Current Challenges Facing Undergraduate Women in STEM and the Role of Relationships in Promoting Resilience

Maura Kraemer
Thesis: Racial Pride as an Academic Support for Black Students: A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of Parent Racial Socialization Processes

Jon Jacob
Thesis: Beyond the Gridiron: Race, Risk, and American Football

Meg Meldrum
Thesis: Rethinking Exclusionary Discipline: Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Discipline and Behavior in an Urban Charter School

Diana Reed
Thesis: Adolescent Sense of Belonging to School: Love and Learning in the Market of Advantage

Grace So
Thesis: Becoming American Asian: Racialization Experience of International Students from Asia

Ashley Uphoff
Thesis: Sorting Our Children: The Impact of School Choice Policies on the Segregation of Chicago’s Public Schools