PhD A-Z

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    • Jacob Alonso
      jacob.alonso@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Marsh, Julie
      Research Interests

      School Leadership

      Organizational Theory

      Crisis Management

      Resilience

      Critical Policy Analysis

      School Choice

    • Gloria C. Anglón
      anglon@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests
      • Racial equity in graduate education
      • STEM graduate student development
      • Sociology of education
      • Organizational change and strategic management

       

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    • Clare Baek
      clarebae@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Aguilar, Stephen
      Research Interests
      • Learning Analytics
      • Learning Technologies
      • Student Motivation in STEM
      • Educational Technology and Students with Disabilities
      • Computer Science Education
    • Kaylan S. Baxter
      ksbaxter@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests

      Accountability

      Accreditation

      Data use

      Institutional effectiveness

      Institutional research

    • James Bridgeforth
      jbridgef@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Harper, Shaun
      • Marsh, Julie
      Research Interests

      Racial Justice and Education, School Choice Policies, Educational Leadership, Racial Violence in Schools, Racial Crisis Management

       

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    • Isabel Clay
      iclay@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Polikoff, Morgan
      Research Interests

      Curricular alignment to standards

      Critical thinking

      K-12 policy

      Quantitative methods

      English Language Learners

      Educational equity

       

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    • Eupha Jeanne Daramola
      daramola@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Marsh, Julie
      Research Interests

      Racial equity in education; qualitative methods; community engagement; school discipline; school leadership

    • Tom DePaola
      depaola@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Kezar, Adrianna
      Research Interests

      Higher education and political economy of cities; contingent labor and unionization; urban restructuring and gentrification; the public good mission of the university; marginalization and mobility among underserved student populations; critical pedagogy; broad-based resistance and solidarity movements.

    • Tara-Marie Desruisseaux
      desruiss@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Quinn, David
      Research Interests

      Student/teacher racial congruence; the role of race in education policy; Black students and mathematical literacy; racial/ethnic opportunity gap; culturally sustaining teaching practices  

       

    • Tasminda K Dhaliwal
      tdhaliwa@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Marsh, Julie
      Research Interests

      Educational equity; quantitative methods; program evaluation; school discipline; school finance; homeless students

       

    • Jude Paul Matias Dizon
      judepaud@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Kezar, Adrianna
      • Tierney, William
      Research Interests

      racialization and racism, carcerality, critical theory and race studies, institutional change, student development

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    • Taylor Enoch-Stevens
      enochste@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Marsh, Julie
      • Picus, Lawrence
      Research Interests
      • Race and education
      • Equity-oriented policies
      • Critical Pedagogy
      • Culturally sustaining pedagogy
      • School finance
    • John Ezaki
      jezaki@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Copur-Gencturk, Yasemin
      Research Interests

      Mathematics teacher education; teacher knowledge; Math teaching and learning; teacher evaluation  

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    • Michael Fienberg
      fienberg@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Kho, Adam
      • Polikoff, Morgan
      Research Interests

      School reform, program evaluation, curriculum, teacher quality, dual enrollment

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    • Martin Gamboa
      mlgamboa@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Polikoff, Morgan
      Research Interests
      • Standards and Curriculum Materials
      • Nationalism, Culture and Education
      • Teaching for Civic Engagement

       

    • Jennifer Gribben
      jgribben@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Sinatra, Gale
      Research Interests

      Environmental Education, Education Policy

       

       

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    • Matthew Hamilton
      mwhamilt@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Tynes, Brendesha
      Research Interests

      Critical digital literacy

      Education technologies

      Race, gender, & class 

      Play, games, & learning 

      Design-based research

       

       

       

    • Jordan Harper
      jnharper@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Kezar, Adrianna
      Research Interests
      • Leadership
      • Non-tenure-track faculty
      • Change
      • Student affairs
      • Non-academic staff 
    • Theresa Elpidia Hernandez
      thereseh@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests

      institutional change for equity in higher education; intersectionality, CRT, and org theory; graduate student and faculty professional learning/development; policy implementation

       

    • Imogen Rose Herrick
      iherrick@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Sinatra, Gale
      Research Interests

      Science Education Policy 

      Science/STEM Teacher Preparation

      Informal Science learning 

      Conceptual Change 

      Place Based Education 

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    • Neil G. Jacobson
      ngjacobs@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Sinatra, Gale
      Research Interests

      Conceptual Change

      Text and Graphic Comprehension

      Motivated Reasoning

      Non-formal Learning

       

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    • Diane Lee
      dianejilee@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Patall, Erika
      Research Interests

      Social-Emotional Development and Measurement

      Academic Identity Development

      Student Motivation and Autonomy Support

      Emotion Regulation and Student Well-Being

      Equitable Practices in Education

    • Jingxian Li
      lijingxi@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Copur-Gencturk, Yasemin
      Research Interests

      Teaching and Teacher Education

      Teacher Knowledge and Instruction

      Measurement and Assessment

       

    • Edgar Fidel Lopez
      Eflopez@usc.edu
      Gates Millennium Scholar
      Advisors
      • Huerta, Adrian
      • Kezar, Adrianna
      Research Interests

      Campus Climate & Imposter Syndrome

      First-Generation College Students

      Mentoring Relationships and Academic Socialization in Graduate Education

      Latinos in Higher Education

      Urban Education & Poverty

      Race, Class, and Gender Inequalities

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    • Milie Majumder
      mmajumde@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Ahmadi, Shafiqa
      • Cole, Darnell
      Research Interests

      Islamophobia in higher education; Muslim student college experiences; transfer student experiences; intersectionality; religious/racial identity and racial battle fatigue; policy implementation and equity in financial aid; financial literacy in underserved populations; college-prep programs 

       

       

       

       

       

    • Neha Miglani
      nmiglani@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Burch, Patricia
      Research Interests
      • Student well-being
      • Body, Embodiment, Somatic Practices
      • Educational Technology
      • Neoliberalism and education
      • Socio-cultural theory
      • Globalization
      • Comparative and International Education
      • Ethnography
    • Elizabeth (Liddy) Morris
      morrisel@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Melguizo, Tatiana
      Research Interests

      Postsecondary access and success for minoritized students

      P-20 Educational Equity

      Critical Pedagogies

      QuantCrit

       

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    • Akua Nkansah-Amankra
      nkansaha@usc.edu
      USC Provost's PhD Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Quinn, David
      Research Interests

      School discipline, restorative justice, transformative education, critical race theory, critical policy analysis, school-to-prison pipeline, STEM engagement

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    • Jaymon T Ortega
      jtortega@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Harper, Shaun
      Research Interests

       

      Esports and Educaiton

      Black and Latino Men

      Racial Equity

      Community Colleges

      Student Athletes

       

       

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    • Sarah Rabovsky
      rabovsky@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Polikoff, Morgan
      Research Interests

      Accountability

      Alternative Schools

      Quantitative Methods

      Teacher Labor Markets

    • Aireale Joi Rodgers
      ajrodger@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests

      Pedagogical and institutional change in higher education; Faculty professional development; equitable pedagogy in higher education; Ecological approaches to higher education reform; Analyses of white serving institutions of higher education

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    • Anamely Salgado
      anamelys@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Aguilar, Stephen
      Research Interests

      Equitable education for immigrant and underepresented youth

      Underepresented youth's motivation and intitatives

      Equity beliefs and practices in individuals and institutions

       

    • Mabel Sanchez
      mabelsan@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Cole, Darnell
    • Daniel T. Scott
      scottdt@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Kezar, Adrianna
      Research Interests
      • Academic labor
      • Workers in higher education
      • Nexus between education and criminal justice systems
      • System-impacted students
    • Daniel Silver
      dsilver@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Polikoff, Morgan
      Research Interests

      Curricular alignment to standards

      Pratitioners' curricular decisions

    • Deborah E. Southern
      desouthe@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests

      Organizational equity planning and implementation; whiteness in higher education organization policy, practices, and routines; dismantling systems of white supremacy in higher education; decolonial and anti-racist organizational transformations; qualitative methods; graduate education.

    • Ashley Stewart
      stewaram@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Tynes, Brendesha
      Research Interests
      • Race-related experiences of minority youth
      • racial socialization
      • Online Discrimination 
      • Critical Media Literacy

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    • Tong Tong
      ttong059@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Kho, Adam
      Research Interests
      • Alternative Schools
      • School Turnaround
      • School Reform
      • Teacher Education
      • English Language Learners
      • Education Policy
      • Quantitative Methods
      • Educational Equity
    • Sarah Toutant
      toutant@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Harper, Shaun
      Research Interests

      Black feminism; critical race feminism; critical race praxis; gendered and racialized experiences of Black women students; intersectionality; off-campus experiences; nightclub culture; qualitative methods; racial campus climate; racialized inequalities in education

    • Adrián Trinidad
      altrinid@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Bensimon, Estela
      Research Interests

      Transfer pathways for racially minoritized community college students

      Policy implementation

      Organizational change in higher education

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    • Natsumi Ueda
      nueda@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Ahmadi, Shafiqa
      • Cole, Darnell
      Research Interests

      Diversity in higher education

      Marginalized student experience

      Interracial / intercultural experience

      Equity and institutional change in higher education

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    • David Velasquez
      d.velasquez@usc.edu
      Gates Millennium Scholar
      Advisors
      • Melguizo, Tatiana
      Research Interests
      • College access, persistence, and completion
      • Mathematics Education
      • Community Colleges
      • Policy Implementation
    • Cynthia Diana Villarreal
      cynthia.villarreal@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Posselt, Julie
      Research Interests

      Borderlands in Higher Education

      Racial Equity in Higher Education

      Organizational culture and change  

      College administration & faculty

      Hispanic-Serving Institutions

      Educational experiences of Latinx students in higher education 

      Chicana Feminist theories

       

    • Amanda Vite
      avite@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Patall, Erika
      Research Interests

      Motivation

      Autonomy Support

      Academic Identity

      Racial/Ethnic Identity

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    • Nicole M. Yates
      nicoleya@usc.edu
      Rossier Dean's Fellowship
      Advisors
      • Patall, Erika
      Research Interests

      Black racial/ethnic identity, motivation, critical quantitative methods

       

    • Elif Asli Yucel
      yucel@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Melguizo, Tatiana
      Research Interests

      Community College Transfer and Performance Funding

      College Access and Completion

      Higher Education Opportunities in Prisons and Jails

      School Closure

      Social Network Analysis

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    • Jeanette Zambrano
      zambranj@usc.edu
      Advisors
      • Patall, Erika
      Research Interests

      Motivation; Teaching practices; Culturally relevant education; Self and identity; Gender, race, and social class.

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