Biography Emma Coffman is a first year PhD student in EPS on the History and Humanities track. She is interested in the history of American higher education during the twentieth century, especially regarding university rankings, institutional prestige, and the emergence of the modern research university. Previously she worked on the editorial staff of the New …
Biography Sophie Cornfield is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) concentrating on the history of education. Her research interests include the tensions between compensatory and universal early childhood initiatives in the context of citizen entitlements in the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography Pushpamitra Das is a master’s student in the Educational Policy Studies Department in the Comparative and International Education concentration . She has a decade long experience working in organizations such as Teacher for India, SBI Youth for India and NITI Aayog- Government of India. Currently, her research focuses on the intersections of education and …
Biography In the stream of other interventions concerned to explore the meanings & malaises of modernity (modernities), I am researching and writing on the educational philosophy and practice of the Scottish-American naturalist, John Muir. I am hoping to tell a story of how Muir made sense of his own 19th and early 20th century moment, …
Biography Carla Z. Glave is a Ph.D. student in Educational Policy Studies in the Comparative and International Education concentration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a M.S.Ed in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously worked implementing, monitoring, and …
Biography Wallace Grace is a PhD Candidate in Education Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work blends philosophy and ethnographic approaches to examine the hermeneutical, phenomenological, and ontological undercurrents of education, childhood and youthhood. Wallace’s dissertation project examines how Black boys and their education come to be known, interpreted and made meaning of …
Biography As a joint PhD student in EPS and History, I am interested in the history of education and 20th century political economy. Specifically, I want to explore educational programs that emerged as part of an ideological backlash to New Deal policies and a changing post-war economic order.
Biography Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, LaShanda Harbin is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy Studies program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Primarily, her research focuses on how education policies can ensure the safety of low-income, Black, and Queer K-12 students.
Biography Kyoungjin Jang is a PhD student in Educational Policy Studies and a project assistant at the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions. Her research focuses on the role of adult and continuing education in the changing world of work.
Biography Olivia Kusuma is a Ph.D. student in Educational Policy studies. She is primarily interested in racial identity development and college access within Southeast Asian American communities. Olivia grew up in Indonesia and served as Mentoring Program Director to the International Student Services at Wheaton College. She was a research assistant at the University of …