Current NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows
Current recipients of the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship follow. To learn more about each project, click on the recipient’s name. Visit this page for more information about the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.

College and the Upwardly-Mobile Professional: Assessing Models of Professional Development, Cultural Skills and the Job Preparation of Latine Working-Class College Students
University of Texas at Arlington

Scaling Differentiated Instruction in Developing Countries: The Role of Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development
University of California, Irvine

Clarifying Pathways between Ethnic Studies and Student Outcomes: The Mediating Roles of Critical Consciousness and Ethnic-Racial Identity
Vanderbilt University

Storying Change: Black Girls' Digital Narratives as Educational Advocacy
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Making History: Origins and Gender of Uganda's Contested Discipline
University of Northern Colorado

Unlocking Student Engagement: Harnessing New Technologies to Enhance Relationships and Learning
Stanford University

Trajectories of Black and Latinx Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness Development within STEM Contexts: A Mixed Methods Study
University of Virginia

Enacting Critical Conversations on Racial, Linguistic, and Anti-Immigrant Injustice: Toward a Theory of Anti-Oppressive Discourse in Education
University of Virginia

The Nurseries of Democracy: Education for Citizenship and the First Amendment Rights of Young Students
University of Florida

Language, Space, and Demographic Change: Examining the White Space of Dual Language Education in the U.S. Midwest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thriving in Fogaraté: Engineering Ingenuity in Haitian-Dominican Communities
Tufts University

Ambiguously apolitical. Policy formulations and enactments in UNRWA’s education program for Palestinian refugees, 1964-2004
Lebanese American University

Estimating Distributions and Ranks of Cluster-Specific Effect Parameters: New Bayesian Tools for Value-Added Modeling
University of Alabama

Investigating Latinx Youths' Anti-Racist Identity and Anti-Racism Action Using a Mixed-Method, Youth-Engaged Research Approach
University of Illinois at Chicago

Reframing Family-School Relations: From Parents’ Involvement in Schools to Schools’ Involvement in Parenting
University of California, Irvine

AI-Assisted Learning of Blended Math-Science Sensemaking Skills (AI4MSS)
University of Houston

Not-so-free markets? The impact of educational privatization and marketization through school choice on attitudes towards government taxation and spending and on public finance
Vanderbilt University

A Litany for Survival: Un-hushing Oral Histories and Lessons from Black Educators
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Punishing Promise: School Discipline and Carceral Expansion during the Era of Desegregation
Eastern Michigan University

Refugee Encampment, School-aged Pregnancy and Motherhood: A Visual Critical Ethnography of Refugee Girls’ Educational Disruptions, Agency, and Resilience at Dzaleka Refugee Camp
University of North Dakota

Early Care and Education Teacher Job Satisfaction: Patterns, Predictors, and Impacts Across Three Large-Scale Longitudinal Datasets
State University of New York, University at Albany

Contestations for Nigerian History Education in Primary and Secondary Schools: from Colonialism to Neocolonialism
McGill University

Stealin’ the Meetin’: The Roots & Legacy of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School.
John Jay College, The City University of New York

Designing An LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Customized Science Assessments Through Multidisciplinary Human-AI Collaboration
Washington State University
