Past Members

Chris Buttimer

Chris Buttimer is currently a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His research interests include critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, and youth participatory action research, as well as teacher education and school reform...

Maya Cohen

Maya Holden Cohen is a second-year doctoral student at HGSE in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration. Her research focuses on the civic formation of American youth, and the impact of political polarization and geographic partisan sorting on...

Andrée-Anne Cormier

Andrée-Anne Cormier is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Montreal and was a Visiting Fellow during 2013-2014 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She is interested in understanding what liberal-democratic justice requires in...

Dan Covino

I am a high school social studies teacher. I graduated from Grinnell College in 2010 with a degree in history, and taught high school American history in Iowa from 2011-2015. In 2016, I received my master's in education from HGSE. This August I will begin...

Jacob Fay

Jacob Fay is a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His research focuses on normative theories of injustice and their relation to educational policy and practice. Fay is co-editor with Meira Levinson of Democratic Discord in...

Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh

Education. Her research interests focus on school quality, evaluating and improving educational settings, teaching and learning, educational ethics, organizational decisions and counseling, professional development and social perspective taking. Prior to...

David J. Knight

David J. Knight is an educator and researcher in Boston. He is an affiliated researcher with the Justice in Schools Project. Drawing on his boundary-crossing work as both an urban public school teacher and scholar, David writes on a wide range of issues...

Alyssa Napier

Alyssa Napier is a second-year PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the intersection of political organizing and educational change. Before coming to Harvard, she worked as a course developer for the MIT...

James Noonan

James Noonan, Ed.D., is a researcher affiliated with the Justice In Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he pursues questions related to teachers' experiences of learning, teacher identity and agency, and school and district...

Tom Preston

Tom Preston completed his Master's at HGSE in May 2014. Before coming to Harvard he studied philosophy and politics at Oxford and taught English in state secondary schools in the United Kingdom. His areas of interest include the philosophy of education...

Ellis Reid

Ellis is a fourth-year doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His primary research interests are democratic theory, educational justice. In particular, his research focuses on educational justice, democratic theory, and the...

Allison Stevens

Prior to joining the PhD program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Allison Stevens taught social studies in Mustang, Oklahoma. As a teacher, her work centered on creating humanizing curricula for students in America’s heartland. Based on her...

Xin Xiang

Xin Xiang is a third-year PhD student at Harvard Graduate School of Education, with concentration in Cultures, Institutions, and Society. She graduated from the Harvard College with a B.A. in Psychology, and did her thesis research on cultural variations...

Brendan Randall

Brendan Randall was a recovering lawyer and teacher studying religion, law and education as a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He was interested in how schools can prepare students to live in a religiously diverse...