Announcements
2024 Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture on Education and Policy
2023 - 2024 EPSA Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships Winners
Fabiola Alba Vivar, Ph.D Candidate
Economics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Opportunity bound: Transport and access to higher education in a megacity
Tomás Esper, Ph.D Candidate
International & Comparative Education
International & Transcultural Studies Department
Reforming schools via autonomy and accountability: a multi-scalar analysis of the global transformation of education governance
Melissa Giebler, Ph.D Candidate
Developmental Psychology
Human Development Department
Associations among the home language environment, neurodevelopment, and language skill
Jalnidh Kaur, Ph.D Candidate
Economics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Teachers' Beliefs about Education Production: Evidence from India
Cami Touloukian, Ph.D Candidate
Sociology & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Education for Social Change: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Ideological Shifts, White Supremacy, and the Role of Schooling in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Ying Xu, Ph.D Candidate
Economics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
School Competition, Resource Allocation, and Inequality in Student Outcomes
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!
The Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship is open to TC students, regardless of their department or program, whose dissertation research has the potential to inform societal efforts to improve educational opportunity, achievement, or equity. This research should be focused on an important policy issue at any level of government, reflect potential for policy utility, and show a strong likelihood of being accepted in the most well-respected journals. Our view of policy relevance is a broad one, encompassing research that affects policy indirectly by shifting public understanding of societal challenges and opportunities for effective intervention.
2022-2023 Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship Winners
Winners of the 2022 – 2023
EPSA Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships
Abbas Abbasov, Ph.D Candidate
International & Comparative Education
International & Transcultural Studies Department
The unfolding disaster on college and university campuses in Hong Kong, Johannesburg, and New York City: Examining higher education policy making amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Saloni Gupta, Ph.D Candidate
Economics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Can innovation be taught in schools? Experimental evidence from India
Kamiya Kumar, Ph.D Candidate
Social Studies Education
Arts & Humanities Department
Shaping Educational Policies through Student Voices
Paula Mantilla-Blanco, Ph.D Candidate
International & Comparative Education
International & Transcultural Studies Department
Education through Memory Sites: Youth and the (Im)Possibility of Peace in Colombia
Isabela Munevar, Ph.D Candidate
Economics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Catholic Schools: academic achievement and gender gaps. Evidence from Chilean school lottery
Sara Sands, Ph.D Candidate
Politics & Education
Education Policy & Social Analysis Department
Teachers as Leaders: Evaluating the Impact of Teacher Leadership on NYC Schools
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!
The Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship is open to TC students, regardless of their department or program, whose dissertation research has the potential to inform societal efforts to improve educational opportunity, achievement, or equity. This research should be focused on an important policy issue at any level of government, reflect potential for policy utility, and show a strong likelihood of being accepted in the most well-respected journals. Our view of policy relevance is a broad one, encompassing research that affects policy indirectly by shifting public understanding of societal challenges and opportunities for effective intervention.
2021 -2022 EPSA Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships Winner
Leana Cabral, Ph.D Candidate
Sociology & Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Black Education Amid COVID & Historical Narratives on Antiblackness
Corrine Kentor, Ph.D Candidate
Anthropology & Education
Department of International & Transcultural Studies
Immigration and Higher Education: Examining the High-School-to-College Transition for Mixed-Status Families in Los Angeles, CA
Erika Kessler, Ph.D Candidate
International & Comparative Education
Department of International & Transcultural Studies
The School Strikes for Climate Change: Why are youth protesting schools?
Matthew Kautz, Ph.D Candidate
History & Education
Department of Arts & Humanities
Punishing Promise: School Discipline and Carceral Expansion
during the Era of Desegregation
Abbey Keener, Ph.D Candidate
Sociology & Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Sociospatial Boundaries in the Suburbs: How housing policy works to make and remake educational segregation across the suburban landscape
Tiana Moore, Ph.D Candidate
Developmental Psychology
Department of Human Development
Residential Mobility and Historical Discriminatory Housing Policy’s Influence on Contemporary Child Health and Cognition
EPSA's Statement in support of AAPI Communities
In a year where we have seen so much loss, so much violence, and so much upheaval, it is important to acknowledge that the diversity of our community, our Asian and Asian-American members, our Black members, our Latinx members, and so many more, makes us better people and more engaged scholars. We are richer for having a community that reflects the many different stories of the human experience. We hope we can be a part of creating and educating a world in which marginalized communities can move about safely, without fear, and with the comfort of knowing we support and value them.
We invite the EPSA community to review the resources below to join the fight against AAPI hate, and to support AAPI communities and their members during this time.
Justice and Care for the AAPI community:
Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate.org/
The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Asian Americans for Equality https://www.aafe.org/donate
Through community development, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) advances racial, social and economic justice for Asian Americans and other systematically disadvantaged communities, guided by our experiences as Asian Americans and our commitment to civil rights.
Womankind https://www.iamwomankind.org/
Womankind works with survivors of gender-based violence to rise above trauma and build a path to healing. We bring critical resources and deep cultural competency to help Asian communities find refuge, recovery, and renewal.
Student Health and Wellness Resources:
EPSA Virtual Cafe https://spatial.chat/s/
TC Student Support & Counseling: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/
Columbia Virtual Support Groups https://health.columbia.edu/
Aaron M. Pallas, Chair, Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis (EPSA)
On behalf of the faculty, staff and students of EPSA
Teachers College, Columbia University
A Statement from the Faculty and Staff of EPSA
To members of the EPSA community:
The events of the past week have been a shocking reminder of the prevalence of racism, discrimination, and violence towards Black people in the US. The murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis last week is just the latest instance of lethal violence directed at Black people. Many other acts of violence towards Black people, some publicized and others not, have preceded it. It is sickening, and we are outraged at the continuing toll on the Black community.
As a community, EPSA acknowledges the history of white privilege that allows white people to move, speak, and live their lives without fear of violence, while simultaneously abridging the freedoms of people of color to do so. As scholars of education policy and social analysis, we are keenly aware of the deep roots of systemic racism that has led to educational inequalities, unequal health outcomes, and disparate experiences with the criminal justice system. Our platform as researchers, scholars, and engaged citizens gives us the opportunity to educate ourselves and others about anti-Black racism, its sources, and strategies for limiting its pernicious reach. We resolve to work together with our students to explore ways that EPSA can better support this critical work.
To our Black students, alumni, and friends, we see you, we hear you, and we want to support and be with you in your studies, your work, and your lives. To all our friends and colleagues, we are counting on you to join us in an interracial fight for a more just society free of racial bias and unequal treatment. This fight can and will take many forms, and we must press it at every turn.
Aaron M. Pallas, Chair, Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis (EPSA)
On behalf of the faculty and staff of EPSA
Teachers College, Columbia University
Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships
Winners of the 2020 – 2021
EPSA Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships
Jill Bloomberg, Ph.D. Candidate
Program in Politics and Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Principals and the Path to Equity in Diverse Schools: Sensemaking of Policy, Reputation and Race
Maya Escueta, Ph.D. Candidate
Program in Economics and Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Effect of a Mother's Childhood Exposure to Armed Conflict
Ashley Macquarrie-Tomey, Ph.D. Candidate
Program in Politics and Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Reform by Another Name: Analyzing & Understanding Multisector Educational Public-Private Partnerships as a Vehicle for Reform
Soumya Mishra, Ph.D. Candidate
Program in Education Policy
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Promise versus Practice:
Formulation and Implementation of a Higher Education Policy in India
Atsuko Muroga, Ph.D. Candidate
Program in Economics and Education
Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis
Evaluating the Costs, Benefits, and Returns on Education of A City-Led Preschool Initiative
Carolina Snaider, Ed.D. Candidate
Program in Curriculum and Teaching
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
The Appropriateness of Gender Policies in Early Childhood Education: How Kindergarten Teachers Understand and Put in Practice Gender-Inclusive Policies
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!
The Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship is open to TC students, regardless of their department or program, whose dissertation research has the potential to inform societal efforts to improve educational opportunity, achievement, or equity. This research should be focused on an important policy issue at any level of government, reflect potential for policy utility, and show a strong likelihood of being accepted in the most well-respected journals. Our view of policy relevance is a broad one, encompassing research that affects policy indirectly by shifting public understanding of societal challenges and opportunities for effective intervention.
2021-2022 Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION POLICY & SOCIAL ANALYSIS
is pleased to announce the
2021-2022 Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowships
for current TC Students.
The Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship is open to TC students, regardless of their department or program, whose dissertation research has the potential to inform societal efforts to improve educational opportunity, achievement, or equity. This research should be focused on an important policy issue at any level of government, reflect potential for policy utility, and show a strong likelihood of being accepted in the most well‐respected journals. Our view of policy relevance is a broad one, encompassing research that affects policy indirectly by shifting public understanding of societal challenges and opportunities for effective intervention.
♦ Fellowship recipients are awarded $6,000 to supplement academically related living, tuition, research, or travel expenses. Six winners are selected each year.
♦ Fellowships are available to matriculating TC doctoral students who will have an approved dissertation proposal by May 31, 2021.
♦ The candidate must be registered for the entire upcoming academic year to receive a disbursement after the Fall/Spring add-drop period in the amount of $3,000. At this time, partial awards are not considered.
♦ Students in all departments of the College are eligible as long as their proposal meet the criteria specified below.
♦ Recipients of the fellowships may be asked to present their research work at an EPSA-sponsored event such as a colloquium, seminar or Policy Student Network activity, where appropriate.
INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY
1. One letter of support from a faculty member familiar with the policy-related work and able to comment on the quality of the research design and prospects for completion and significance. This letter should have the faculty member's signature, be emailed as an Adobe PDF, and sent from the faculty member's TC/CU email account directly to: epsa@tc.columbia.edu
2. One copy of an e-Transcript (Electronic, official TC transcript)
Ordering e-Transcripts using the MyTC Portal:
To submit an online request, log into MyTC, then click on the TC Services tab. Locate the box entitled Enrollment & Student Services, then click on the Student Records link. On the next page, click on Request Electronic Transcript, then follow the prompts to submit your request. If you are unable to locate either the Enrollment & Student Services box or the Student Records link in MyTC, please contact the Registrar’s Office at (212) 678-4071 during normal business hours.
3. One copy of your curriculum vitae (CV)
4. Completed application cover sheet
Policy Dissertation Fellowship COVER LETTER
5. One copy of an essay providing an overview of the proposed work, including:
- The social, intellectual, and policy significance of the work;
- Explicit statement of a policy-research study that gives evidence of a significant social problem, clear conceptualization, a grounding in theory, and a rigorous research design;
- An integrated analytic framework that drives the purpose and the questions being asked;
- Documentation of feasibility of completing the policy relevant research in a timely fashion;
- Evidence of research and policy skills, including policy coursework taken at TC or elsewhere, as well as any relevant policy experience, likely to lead to the successful completion of the proposed policy work; and
- A plan to disseminate the research finding so that they can inform policy.
The essay must begin with a cover page that includes your name, address, phone number, email address, TCID number, title of project and academic program. The essay must be no more than 8 pages (excluding cover page), double‐spaced, in 12‐point Times New Roman font. References may go to a separate page. Please head each page with last name and page number.
DEADLINE: COMPLETED APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPT. OF EDUCATION POLICY & SOCIAL ANALYSIS, BY 5:00PM ON FEBRUARY 5, 2021.
For additional information, please contact Liz Farley in the EPSA Department at (212) 678‐3188 or e‐mail: LMF2174@tc.columbia.edu