University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Aydarova, Elena

Download CV   https://elenaaydarova.com/   Elena Aydarova is an Associate Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her scholarship focuses on the interactions between educational policy, policy advocacy, and social inequality across international contexts, including the U.S., Russia, and the Middle East. Drawing on critical, feminist, and decolonial theories, her research interrogates …

Bartlett, Lesley

Download CV   Lesley Bartlett is a Professor in Educational Policy Studies and Associate Dean of Regional, International, and Language Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is affiliated with Curriculum and Instruction and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS). An anthropologist by training who works in the field of International and Comparative Education, Professor Bartlett’s …

Claessens, Amy

Download CV   Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE)   Development and Research in Early Math Education (DREME)   Amy Claessens is the Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Childhood Education, and she serves as the associate director for the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE). With a doctorate in human development from Northwestern University’s School of …

Hora, Matthew

Download CV   http://www.matthewhora.com   http://ccwt.wceruw.org   Matthew T. Hora is a Professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Departments of Liberal Arts & Applied Studies (Division of Continuing Studies) and Education Policy Studies (School of Education) and is the Founding and current co-Director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) at UW-Madison. His interdisciplinary work on …

Kendall, Nancy

Download CV   Nancy Kendall is professor of educational policy studies. Her research examines the consequences of national and international policies and funding streams directed at improving the lives and wellbeing of children, communities, and states positioned as “marginalized” by national and international regimes. Research projects have examined Education for All, political democratization and educational governance, …

Lee, Stacey J.

Download CV   Stacey J. Lee is a Vilas Research Professor and the Frederick Erickson WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and a faculty affiliate in Asian American Studies. Her research focuses on the role of education in the incorporation of im/migrants into the US. She is the author of Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to …

Liu, Ran

http://sites.google.com/site/ranliusoci   Ran Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Her research examines cross-national differences in gender inequality in STEM education, with a particular focus on East Asian societies. More broadly, she studies the intersection of race, gender, class, and immigration status in education and the labor market. She is …

Mae, Naomi

Download CV   Naomi Mae W. PhD (Dr. Mae) is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies in Fall 2024 and is currently an Anna Julia Cooper Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to Madison, Dr. Mae was an Associate Program Officer and Project Manager at the Spencer Foundation. In this role, she reviewed proposals …

Nelson, Adam

Download CV   Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University. His publications include Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 (2001); The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s …

O’Brien, David

Website   David O’Brien received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019. He then served as an assistant professor at Tulane University and was the director of Tulane’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs in 2021-2022 and a faculty fellow-in-residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University …