Dissertation Fellowship Program
Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
2008 - 2009 Cohort
Fellow Name with Institutional Affiliation and Dissertation Title at Time of Award
Megan Andrew
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cumulative Advantage in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Quantity and Qualities
Juan Fernando Carrillo
University of Texas at Austin
So Far From Home: Portraits of Mexican American Scholarships Boys
Ross Emmerson Collin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Diversifying Portfolios? Schooling, Subjectivities, and Portfolio-Keeping in Times of Transformation
Diana C. D'Amico
New York University
"You Look On Us As Professional People:" New York City Teachers Union, School Administration, Teacher Education Programs and the Creation and Contestation of Professionalism in the Twentieth Century
Christina Lenore Davis
University of Georgia
Reconstruction-Era Pedagogies: A Blueprint for Reconceptualizing Black Learners
Brian Douglas Dick
University of California, Davis
Legitimating String Theory: A Sociological Analysis of a Theory of Everything
Jon N. Hale
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Critical Social History of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom School Movement
Jennifer Jennings
Columbia University in the City of New York
The Distributional Consequences of Accountability Systems in Education and Medicine
Michael J. Kieffer
Harvard University
Taking Words Apart to Build Meaning: A Promising Approach to Vocabulary Development for Adolescent English Language Learners
Shervin Malekzadeh
Georgetown University
Ambiguous Spaces: Classrooms and the Politics of Schools and Identity Formation in Postrevolutionary Iran
Isabel Martinez
Teachers College, Columbia University
Chasing the Mexican Immigrant Dream in the Gran Manzana (Big Apple): The Plight on Non-School Going Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City
Paula Jane McAvoy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultural Accommodation in Public Schools: Weighing Competing Values
David Benjamin Miele
Northwestern University
The Motivational Underpinnings of Self-Regulated Learning
Sonia Oliva
University of Illinois at Chicago
Between Brown and Black: Navigating Racial and Spatial Fault Lines in School
Kate L. Phillippo
Stanford University
Small High Schools and Socially Vulnerable Students: The Teachers's Role in Providing Support
Linn E. Posey
University of California, Berkeley
The Politics of Race, Class, and Demographic Change in a City Public School
Joseph Paul Robinson
Stanford University
Does Reclassification Help English Learners? A Quasi-Experiment Using Regression Discontinuity Design
Martín Christian Santos
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Social Relations in Flux: Effects of Dynamic Friendship Networks on Academic Achievement
Judith E. Scott-Clayton
Harvard University
The Blurring Transition From School to Work: What Explains Rising Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2003?
Tesha Sengupta-Irving
Stanford University
In Collaboration: A Case Study of How Group-Based Learning Shapes Participation and Learning Among Ethnic Minority and Female Students in Math
Laurie Sleep
University of Michigan
“What is My Goal in this Lesson?" Knowing and Using Mathematics in Teaching
Benjamin Kyle Smith
University of Chicago
Language and the Development of Selfhood in Aymara Middle Childhood
Herbert Raul Sosa
University of Michigan
Fragmented Diversity: Desegregation, Busing and Public Education in Los Angeles, 1963-1982
Shonte Yvette Stephenson
University of California, Davis
What's School Got To Do With It? An Application of Multilevel Mixture Models to Detecting Sources of Differential Item Functioning at a School Level
Beth Tarasawa
Emory University
Fight or Flight? Immigration, Status Competition, and Language Assistant Resources in Metropolitan Atlanta
Heather Lynn Taylor
University of California, Los Angeles
A School-Based Parent Intervention Program to Improve Student Behavior Problems and the School-Family Relationship During the Transition to Kindergarten
Camille Lorraine Walsh
University of Oregon
Class, Race, and Claiming the Right to Equal Education, 1899-1974
Larisa Warhol
Arizona State University
Native American Language Education as Policy-as Practice: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of the Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992
Timothy J. Williams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Becoming Men of Letters: The Higher Education of Male Youth in the South, 1795-1861
Aurora Cavallario Wood
Stanford University
Dynamic Stability: Navigating Turbulence for Sustained Improvement in Schools