Note: I have retired from teaching and (with mixed emotions) no longer accept graduate students.
Bruce Fuller, a sociologist, delves into how institutions, large and small, try to lift the learning and growth of children. This prompts the question of how local actors, educators, and policy players can work smarter to lift organizations.
Recent work delves into:
The policy strategies deployed by the Trump Administration to erode the vitality of middle and low-income families. For example,...
Abby is a doctoral candidate in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster. Her research focuses on decision making and implementation using concepts from organizational theory. Her current research project is a three-year study about how district leaders in California are using their federal and state stimulus funds. Finance scholars have found that money does matter in education, but there are still questions about how district leaders make decisions when new dollars flow and why district leaders opt to prioritize dollars toward certain programs over others. Using qualitative research...
Erin Murphy-Graham works in the field of comparative and international education. Her research focuses on three inter-related areas: 1) the process by which education can foster the empowerment of girls and women, and the theorization of what empowerment entails; 2) the role of education in changing how students relate to others, particularly in their intimate relationships and in building trust; 3) the rigorous evaluation of educational programs that have demonstrated potential to empower youth and adults in Latin America. She is currently engaged in a design-based research-practice...
Ella M. Crawford is a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the Berkeley School of Education. She studies instances of organizational change in higher education through policy interventions. During her Phd, Ella is studying a case of technology implementation and how it brings about structural change.
Currently, Ella’s research examines the use of AI in educational administration tools, with a focus on how socio-technical policies around AI are developed and implemented. Her work explores the sociocultural dimensions of AI systems to understand how...
Kevin Quintero (He/Him/His) is a PhD candidate in Policy, Politics, and Leadership at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Kevin’s research interests are using methodological and theoretical approaches to reveal the causes of political, social, and educational inequalities. His current research examines how the expansion of voting rights in California creates opportunities for minority groups to increase representation on school boards and influence educational policymaking. In particular, his dissertation shows how the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) has reshaped electoral systems for...
Jennifer A. Delaney is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Delaney’s research investigates higher education finance questions with public policy importance. She uses advanced statistical techniques on large scale datasets with an emphasis on quasi-experimental designs. Her scholarship has fallen into two broad categories: higher education finance and higher education policy, admissions, and public support. Intertwining these two areas of scholarship, her work addresses public policy in higher education across institutional, state,...
Derek Van Rheenen’s research interests include the cultural studies of sport, nature sports, sport tourism, ecopedagogy, the connections between sports, learning and schooling, and the role of intercollegiate athletics in the American university system. A former Academic All-American and professional soccer player, Van Rheenen teaches courses on sport, culture, and education. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the School of Education, UC Berkeley. Professor Van Rheenen has also been named a Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley....
Qifan Zhang is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, with a concentration in Policy, Politics, and Leadership. Qifan graduated from Tianjin University and received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. From there, she continued her studies at Georgetown University and received an MA in Public Policy. Before she came to Berkeley, Qifan interned at the National Institute of Education Sciences of China, a Chinese educational think tank.
She is interested in using quantitative methods to explore issues related to student...
