EPS Current Students
Profiles of EPS current students
Below is a sample of students from the following Education Policy Studies graduate degree programs:
American Indian Leadership Program
Graduate Students on the Job Market
American Indian Leadership Program
College Student Affairs
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Shannon Beaver |
| M.Ed | |
| slb5009@psu.edu | |
| United States | |
| Recruitment and Retention of first generation college students | |
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Hilary Chubb |
| M.Ed | |
| hsc128@psu.edu | |
| Reading, PA | |
| Disability services, Learning enrichment | |
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Micah Howe |
| M.Ed | |
| mlh412@psu.edu | |
| Seattle, WA | |
| College choice, orientation programs, women in higher education | |
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Katherine Curley |
| M.Ed | |
| kmc430@psu.edu | |
| Golden Valley (Minneapolis), Minnesota | |
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Dylan Howser |
| M.Ed. | |
| dch209@psu.edu | |
| Chicago, IL | |
| College Men and Masculinities, The Role of Liberal Arts Education, First Year Students | |
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Sherry Rice |
| M.Ed. | |
| slr5009@psu.edu | |
| Williamsport, PA | |
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Elizabeth Brown |
| M.Ed. | |
| ejb272@psu.edu | |
| Laramie, WY | |
| Women in higher education, student affairs administration, education policy | |
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Jordan Jozwik |
| M.Ed. | |
| jj188@psu.edu | |
| Nashville, TN | |
| STEM Education, Student Leadership Development | |
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Julia A. Martinez |
| M.Ed. | |
| jam968@psu.edu | |
| Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| First year students, college access, diversity, support and programming for undergraduate women, student engagement, and undergraduate minority student retention and graduation |
Educational Leadership
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Shelby Keefer |
| Ph.D. | |
| shelbyleekeefer@gmail.com | |
| Bloomsburg, PA; New York, NY | |
| Teacher Coaching and Development, Teacher Evaluation | |
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Susan Voigt |
| Ph.D. | |
| scv105@psu.edu or svoigt@caiu.org | |
| Pittsburgh, PA via Harrisburg, PA | |
| Online education for students and teacher PD, rural education, educational program evaluation, mentoring new teachers and administrators | |
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Jing Liu |
| Ph. D. (also CI ED) |
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| jol5357@psu.edu | |
| China | |
| Sociology of education; evaluation; professional development | |
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Elizabeth Heidt |
| M.Ed. | |
| ejh5029@psu.edu | |
| Erie, PA | |
| Educational Law/ First Amendment Rights of Teacher | |
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Ashwini Tiwari |
| Ph.D.(also CI ED) | |
| akt150@psu.edu | |
| Phoenix,USA; Mumbai, India | |
| Urban education policy, School discipline, Special education, Education in South Asia | |
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Amy Breon |
| D.ED | |
| asb197@psu.edu | |
| Lock Haven, PA | |
| The Principal Role and Literacy | |
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Teresa A. Abdulbaaqee |
| PhD, Superintendency Letter of Eligibility | |
| taa169@psu.edu | |
| Florida, Virginia | |
| School culture & climate; school superintendency; educational reform; legal/political issues in education | |
| Jinyan Bai | |
| M.Ed | |
| China | |
| School management | |
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Mehnaz Jehan |
| PhD (also CI ED) | |
| jxm1048@psu.edu | |
| Northern Areas of Pakistan (FANA) | |
| Ethical dimension of educational leadership; teacher education; research in comparative and international education; girls' education | |
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Travis Lee |
| Ed.D | |
| Huntingdon, PA | |
| Extracurricular activities, rural education | |
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Andy McCrea |
| Ed.D | |
| Newville, PA | |
| Special and remedial education, assessment and measurement, systems change | |
| Steven Nelson | |
| PhD | |
| New Orleans, LA | |
| How school culture affects the school to prison pipeline | |
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Michelle Salopek |
| Ed.D | |
| mmc227@psu.edu | |
| State College, PA | |
| Gender-specific leadership (specifically for girls' needs), styles of leadership conducive for educating girls | |
| Zhang Yingai (Linette) | |
| M.Ed | |
| Shanghai, China | |
| School management |
Educational Theory and Policy
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Waeodao Autid |
| Ph.D. | |
| wua107@psu.edu | |
| Thailand | |
| Sustainability in national education assessment and evaluation, professional development and international education policy | |
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Nik Barkauskas |
| Ph.D. | |
| njb957@psu.edu | |
| Flemington, N.J. | |
| Philosophy of Education, Politics in Education, and Equity Gaps in Education | |
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Pablo Fraser |
| Ph.D. | |
| pnf106@psu.edu | |
| Chile | |
| Teacher education, Sociology of Education, Comparative and International Educational Policy, Social Movements in Education | |
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Kelly Griffith |
| Ph.D. | |
| kmg19@psu.edu | |
| Franklinville, New York | |
| Contemporary Education Reform, Educational Equity, College Preparation, K-16 Education Policy, Rural Education | |
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Emily Hodge |
| Ph.D. | |
| emily.hodge@psu.edu | |
| Virginia | |
| Curriculum policy, history, English education | |
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Renata Horvatek |
| Ph.D. | |
| ruh158@psu.edu | |
| Croatia, Varazdin | |
| Educational opportunities and widening access to HE policies for underrepresented groups of students; international education; early interventions effects on educational aspirations and attainment | |
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Sakiko Ikoma |
| Ph.D. | |
| sui114@psu.edu | |
| Tokyo, Japan | |
| Sociology of Education, Educational Stratification, Education Policies, Credentialism and Meritocracy, Teacher Quality, School Climate, Homework, Shadow Education, Japanese American Internment, Youth Activism | |
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Hilario Lomeli, Jr. |
| Ph.D. | |
| hjl5053@psu.edu | |
| Crockett, Texas | |
| Latina/o education in non-traditional destinations, ethnic identity formation, Latina feminism, community activism | |
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Erica Lopatofsky Kryst |
| Ph.D. | |
| ell140@psu.edu | |
| Union Dale, Pennsylvania | |
| rural education, access to higher education, social class and agency | |
| Juan Leon Jara Almonte | |
| Ph.D. | |
| jjl292@psu.edu | |
| Peru | |
| Schooling effects, School effects, Child Development, Program Evaluation, Bilingual Education and Quantitative methods | |
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Bryan Mann |
| Ph.D. | |
| bmann4@gmail.com | |
| Howell, New Jersey | |
| Education policy, charter schools, cyber charter schools, and K-12 online education |
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Margaret Oakar |
| Ph.D. | |
| mmo12@psu.edu | |
| Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Research interests: veterans returning to education, military families, impact of educational policy, online learning | |
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Nnenna Ogbu |
| Ph.D. | |
| naa5145@psu.edu | |
| Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Education policy, diversity, school choice and charter schools, mixed methods, and GIS | |
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Angela Rothrock |
| Ph.D. | |
| arb184@psu.edu | |
| State College, PA | |
| Education for undocumented students and access to higher education | |
| Daniel Salinas | |
| Ph.D. | |
| drs347@psu.edu | |
| Chile | |
| Stratification and mobility, comparative education, social movements, qualitative inequalities in education, Latin America | |
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Liang Sun |
| Ph.D. | |
| lxs982@psu.edu | |
| China | |
| International educational exchange, internationalization of higher education | |
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Armend Tahirsylaj |
| Ph.D. | |
| aut159@psu.edu | |
| Kosovo | |
| Instructional regime effects on student achievement; curriculum; didaktik; educational policy; cross-national school differentiation; international assessments & comparative education | |
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Alison Tyler |
| Ph.D. | |
| act167@psu.edu | |
| Detroit, Michigan | |
| Contemporary school reform, school integration and educational equity | |
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Peter Dawson Buckland |
| PhD | |
| pdb118@psu.edu | |
| State College, PA | |
| Sustainability in education; moral and ethical dimensions of climate change and education; evolution education; philosophy of education | |
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Tian Fu |
| PhD | |
| tianfu@psu.edu | |
| China | |
| School choice; educational equality; school law | |
| Gulab Khan | |
| PhD | |
| Pakistan | |
| Educational policy development perspectives in Pakistan | |
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Adrienne Henck |
| PhD | |
| New York; Virginia | |
| International development, south/central Asia, non-formal education, media for social change, child labor and child-friendly spaces | |
| Yu Hu | |
| M.Ed | |
| China | |
| Quantitative research methods | |
| Stephen Kotok | |
| PhD | |
| Omaha, NE | |
| Urban education, school choice, long term attainments, achievement gap | |
| Xiqian Lin | |
| M.Ed | |
| China | |
| Policy making | |
| Xinnan Lu | |
| M.Ed | |
| China | |
| Comparative education | |
| Sunny Madahar | |
| PhD | |
| New York, NY | |
| Minority students in special education and inequality in urban school districts | |
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Mary L. Osif-Bleam |
| PhD | |
| mlo138@psu.edu | |
| Millheim, PA | |
| Conflict resolution through formal and informal education; social identity in the classroom; education in conflict and post-conflict societies | |
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Katie Reed |
| PhD (also CI ED) | |
| krr165@psu.edu | |
| Garland, TX | |
| Latino immigrants' academic performance and transitions to college; immigrant educational outcomes in traditional and new immigrant gateway cities, districts', schools'; teachers' responses to rapid changes in their student populations in these new gateway communities | |
| Siyuan Ren | |
| M.Ed | |
| China | |
| Economics of education; policy impact on economics | |
| Lindsey Schrott | |
| PhD | |
| Maryland | |
| Informal education, learning online, sociocultural contexts of education, arts as education | |
| Will Smith | |
| PhD | |
| Oregon via Colorado | |
| Human capital, social mobility, developing world (Latin America emphasis) poverty alleviation |
Higher Education
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Kaitlin Gurganus |
| PhD | |
| kag317@psu.edu | |
| Clarks Summitt, PA | |
| Law & higher education, college student success, student development | |
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Charles Gibson |
| PhD | |
| ceg193@psu.edu | |
| Atlanta, GA | |
| College student success, access to postsecondary education, community colleges, underrepresented populations in postsecondary education | |
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Duane Rohrbacher |
| PhD | |
| duaner@psu.edu | |
| Sandusky, OH | |
| Higher education policy, law, student development | |
| Erik Wessel | |
| D Ed | |
| esw12@psu.edu | |
| Hershey, PA | |
| College student development, counseling, & legal issues in higher education | |
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Sarah Hoffman |
| PhD | |
| sch5169@psu.edu | |
| Los Alamos, NM | |
| Academic unionization, organizational theory, political economy, governance | |
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Rachel Frick-Cardelle |
| PhD | |
| raf231@psu.edu | |
| Stroudsburg, PA | |
| Community colleges, financiall aid, access issues for underrepresented populations | |
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Jordan Ford |
| M Ed | |
| jaf378@psu.edu | |
| Hershey, PA | |
| Funding Higher Education | |
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Keith Cerroni |
| D Ed | |
| kcc132@sa.psu.edu | |
| Erie, PA | |
| Residency and its impact on students | |
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Seung Wan Nam |
| PhD | |
| sun143@psu.edu | |
| Seoul, South Korea | |
| Research university, Graduate education, National Innovation System and policy | |
| Edson Sousa | |
| PhD | |
| ezm131@psu.edu | |
| Brazil | |
| Student access, retention and success in private institutions | |
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Talia Carroll |
| PhD | |
| tkc11@psu.edu | |
| Oklahoma City, OK | |
| Underrepresented students' experiences, educational equity, first-year student programs, and assessment | |
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Annemarie Mountz |
| PhD | |
| axm219@psu.edu | |
| State College, PA | |
| University organization and culture; student development, conduct and engagement | |
| Linzy Martinelli | |
| M Ed | |
| lxm978@psu.edu | |
| Harwinton, CT | |
| Student development | |
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Bradley Webb |
| PhD | |
| bmw227@psu.edu | |
| Mifflinburg, PA | |
| First generation college students, college choice, enrollment management, the liberal arts | |
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Anne Weiss |
| PhD | |
| weiss@psu.edu | |
| Virginia | |
| Science & math teachers' online professional development, online learning communities | |
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Frank Fernandez |
| PhD | |
| fernandez@psu.edu | |
| Imperial, CA | |
| Community colleges, student veterans, higher education politics/policy | |
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Kiara Allison |
| M Ed | |
| kafa115@psu.edu | |
| Philadelphia, PA | |
| The African American experience in Higher Education particularly at predominantly white institutions | |
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Emil Cunningham |
| PhD | |
| emil@psu.edu | |
| South Bronx, New York | |
| Safe Space at PWIs | |
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Mark Umbricht |
| PhD | |
| mru103@psu.edu | |
| Illinois | |
| Institutional research, student outcomes, first-generation students | |
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Jennifer Eury |
| PhD | |
| jld345@psu.edu | |
| Pittsgrove, NJ | |
| Concepts and frameworks used in business and management research | |
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Tony Sclafani |
| PhD | |
| asclafani@psu.edu | |
| King of Prussia, PA | |
| Campus climates for racial/ethnic minorities and LGBTQ populations; psychosocial development and the role(s) of sexuality in gale male college students; student affairs administration | |
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Phil Blackman |
| PhD | |
| pcb141@clsl.psu.edu | |
| Westminster, MD | |
| Public finance of higher education & higher education law | |
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Allie Goldstein |
| PhD | |
| asg206@psu.edu | |
| East Rockaway, NY | |
| Diversity education, identity development | |
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Wil Del Pilar |
| PhD | |
| wzd107@psu.edu | |
| Los Angeles, CA | |
| Immigrant and undocumented students; college choice and issues related to access and equity | |
| Melanie Fedri | |
| PhD | |
| Buffalo, NY | |
| Social entrepreneurship curriculum, transdisciplinarity, undergraduate research, academic publishing system issues | |
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Karla Loya |
| PhD | |
| Kansas City, MO; Mexico | |
| Assessment, institutional research, accreditation, gender studies | |
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India McHale |
| PhD | |
| imm120@psu.edu | |
| New Orleans, LA | |
| Teaching; learning; curricula; institutional climate; and social class | |
| Michael Minutello | |
| PhD | |
| New York | |
| Student learning, assessment, college rankings | |
| Jared Rodrigues | |
| PhD | |
| near Philadelphia, PA | |
| Non-cognitive factors in student success | |
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Travis York |
| PhD | |
| tty102@psu.edu | |
| Charleston, SC | |
| Teaching and learning; strength and moral development; higher education law | |
| Jihee Hwang | |
| PhD | |
| jzh180@psu.edu | |
| South Korea | |
| College access and success, For-profit colleges and universities, Institutional research, Student Affairs |
