Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
2006 - 2007 Cohort
Fellow Name with Institutional Affiliation and Dissertation Title at Time of Award
Aprile Dawn Benner
University of California, Los Angeles
Navigating the Transition to Multi-Ethnic Urban High Schools: Ecological Influences on Adolescent Outcomes
Elizabeth Berkes
Washington University in St. Louis
Practicing Biology: Understanding Laboratory Research, Persistence in Science, and the Impact of Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Angela Bermudez
Harvard University
Adolescent Engagement in Ethical and Political Controversy
Tracy Lachica Buenavista
University of California, Los Angeles
(De)Colonizing Practices: A Case Study of Philipino Student-Initiated Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education
Zoë Burkholder
New York University
'With Science as His Shield': Teaching Race and Culture in American Public Schools, 1900-1954
Juan Carlos Calcagno
Teachers College, Columbia University
Evaluating the Impact of Developmental Education in Community Colleges: A Quasi-Experimental Regression-Discontinuity Design
Marisa Ann Cannata
Michigan State University
Where to Teach? Developing a More Comprehensive Framework for Understanding Teachers Career Decisions
Robert K. Christensen
Indiana University
Managing Desegregation: The Implications and Effectiveness of an Intervening Federal Judiciary
Zoë Blumberg Corwin
University of Southern California
College, Connections and Foster Care: How Social Capital Affects Educational Attainment for Foster Youth
Corrie Decker
University of California, Berkeley
From Colonial Development to Community Development: Female Education in Zanzibar and Mombasa, 1920-1955
Michael J. Dumas
City College City University of New York
Sitting Next to White Children: School Desegregation and the Cultural Production of the Black Educational Imagination
Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick
University of Virginia
Starting School at Four: The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten on Children and Mothers
Sandra Garcia
Columbia University in the City of New York
The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on School Outcomes and its Interaction with Social Capital: Evidence from Colombia
Leah Gordon
University of Pennsylvania
The Question of Prejudice: Social Science, Education, and the Struggle to Define the Race Problem in Postwar America, 1940-1970
Azra Hromadzic
University of Pennsylvania
Emerging Citizens: Youth, Education, and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina
Rebecca Jane Jacobsen
Teachers College, Columbia University
What Should Schools Do? Opinions on the Goals of Public Education
Michael Frederick Lovenheim
University of Michigan
The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Unionization: Evidence from Midwestern States
Ebony Omotola McGee
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chronicles of Success: Black College Students Achieving in Mathematics and Engineering
Eduardo Mosquesa
Harvard University
English Proficiency, Tracking and the Mathematics Achievement of Latino English Learners
Karthik Muralidharan
Harvard University
Inputs and Incentives in Developing County Education: Evidence from India
Mary Carmel Murphy
Stanford University
The Importance of Context: Conceptualizing a Theory of Social Identity Threat in the Classroom
Kylie Aine Peppler
University of California, Los Angeles
Creative Bytes: Media Arts Practices of Urban Youth
Paul Joseph Ramsey
Indiana University
A Polyglot Boardinghouse: A History of Bilingual Education in the United States, 1840s-1950s
Vimal Ranchhod
University of Michigan
Barriers to Educational Attainment Amongst Disadvantaged Race Groups in South Africa
Sarah Frances Rose
University of Illinois at Chicago
No Right to Be Idle: Work, Citizenship, and the Invention of Disability, 1880-1930
Jennifer Lin Russell
University of California, Berkeley
Not Kid Stuff Anymore? An Analysis of Institutional Change in Kindergarten Education
Nadya J. Sbaiti
Georgetown University
Education and the Formation of National Societies in Beirut, Lebanon, 1926-1966
Rebecca McNulty Schreiber
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
Andrea Dianne Tartaro
Northwestern University
Storytelling with a Virtual Peer as an Intervention for Children with Autism
Elizabeth Vaquera
University of Pennsylvania
When Friends Matter: The Impact of Best Friends on Hispanic Racial and Ethnic Differences in School Engagement and Achievement