Current NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellows
Current recipients of the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship follow. To learn more about each project, click on the recipient’s name. Visit this page for more information about the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
Causal Machine Learning with Reflective Latent Variables: A Latent Deep & Targeted Learning (LDTL) Architecture
University of Cincinnati
Expansive Democratic Literacy and Living Possibilities of the Civil Rights Movement
Northwestern University
Teaching Ethnic Studies during a Complex Time: K – 12 Ethnic Studies Educators in California
University of California, Irvine
Learning for Some? Testing the Promise of Inclusion in Zambia's Classrooms
New York University
Divided by Design: Decentralization, Parallel Schooling, and the Politics of Education and Identity in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Teachers College, Columbia University
Timing Cash Transfers Around High-Stakes Exams: Impacts on Test Performance and Long-Run Outcomes
Tufts University
Contesting Erasure: How Youth, Caregivers, and Adults Disrupt Trans and LGBTQ+ Student Exclusion in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultural Relevance and School Belonging at Scale: Evidence from a Districtwide Ethnic Studies Expansion
University of California, Irvine
Water in the Well: Lowering and Lifting Georgia Jeanes Teachers' Pedagogical Theories Through Archival Recovery, 1908–1968
University of Georgia
Migrants' Moving Literacies in a Seasonal Harvest School
Michigan State University
Futurities in Action "Seeing Eye to Eye": Identity, Leadership, Social Change Making and Consequential Learning Trajectories for Young People into Adulthood through Community-Based Education
Northwestern University
A Science Education Genealogy of Black Possibility: Historicizing Black Science Teachers' Unsettlings of Antiblack Disciplinary Norms (1900–1974)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
La Cultura Cura: A Community-based Research Study with Justice-Impacted Youth
University of Colorado
AfroLatinidad in Dual Language Bilingual Education: An Exploration into Borderlands, Blanqueamiento, and Resistance
Teachers College, Columbia University
Schools, Sex & Silence: A Comparative Ethnography of the Pedagogies of Gendered Shame in Lahore, Pakistan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ecologías Transfronterizas: Transfronterizx Youth Movements and the Development of Border-Crossing Repertoires
University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Where You Are: Storying Social Studies Teacher Relationship To Land
Arizona State University
What is "access to linguistic inclusion"? A case study of Oregon's HB 2056
Oregon State University
The Kids Over Here and the Grown-Ups Over There: Reimagining School Mathematics through Young Children's Play with Video Data
Vanderbilt University
Pathways to Reentry and Transformation in California Higher Education
University of California, Merced
Examining Reading Specialists' Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Cross-Linguistic Transfer for K–3 Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Students Classified as English Learners
University of Delaware
Teaching Gatsby, Reading "Greatness": Comparing Collective Memories of America's Past to Narrate the Nation in a Divided State
University of Michigan
Caminantes: Youth, Schooling, and Immigration Precarity in New York City
New York University
Staying the Course: Understanding How Students, Teachers, and Communities Sustain Education in Conflict-Affected Myanmar
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Echoes of the Steppe, Transnational Dreams: Translanguaging Tongues, Transracial Lives, and the Making of Qazaqness in Los Angeles' Little Kazakhstan
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Effects of Special Education Policies at Scale: Identification Disparities and Student Achievement
University of California, Irvine
Incentives, Credentials, and the Limits of Teacher Sorting: Evidence from Performance Pay in Texas
Michigan State University
A Song For Her: Visions and Tools for a Black Girl Abolitionist Future
University of California, Los Angeles
Gendered Antiblackness in Practice: Exploring Black Students' Resistance to School Policing and Surveillance in Two Cities
University of California, Riverside
Studying "Abroad" in the Empire: Higher Education and Cuban, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, and Filipino Students in the Continental United States, 1898-1917
Georgetown University
Bridging the Gaps: Child Care Supply, School Readiness, and the Expansion of Public Pre-K
Brown University
Unmasking (mis)representations: Literacy and language development of SLIFE students in U.S. high school
University of Pennsylvania
In The Belly of the Beast: ACT 266 & The Policy Advocacy of HMoob/Hmong & Asian American K-12 Studies in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Looking ahead? The Role of Future Educational Opportunities on Pre-college Human Capital
University of Notre Dame