2021 MA Graduates
The following students are 2021 graduates of the UChicago Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences or the Master in Public Policy Program at the Harris School of Public Policy who additionally completed a certificate program in Education and Society administered by the Committee on Education.
Paige Abbott
Thesis: Precursors to Prosociality: SES and its Consequences
Paige currently works at the Behavioral Research Lab at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Kelsey Berryman
Thesis: Healing Schools: a Case Study in Mitigating the Effects of Exposure to Community Violence in Chicago Schools
Kelsey is currently a Research Associate at the American Institutes for Research, working on their Youth, Family, Community Development program
Sara Feinstein
Thesis: Childcare Subsidy Instability and Child Behavior: A Study of Families in Illinois and New York
Sarah is currently completing the Doctoral Program in Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill.
Michelle Gardner
Thesis: Pursuing Greatness at Math Corps: Changing the Way Students View Math in Detroit through
Esprit de Corps
Dylan Jacovo
Thesis: The University of Chicago Examining the Role of School Resource Officers through a Relational Trust Lens: A Case Study from the Chicago Public Schools
Dylan is an Associate at the Education Strategy Group
Cindy Kang
Thesis: Understanding the Effects of Sibling Dynamics on Parents’ Math Talk at Home
Maggie Lawler
Thesis: Race, Class, and Parental Advocacy for Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Maggie is currently completing the Doctoral Program in Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington
Amy Liang
Thesis: Beating The COVID-19 Slide In Education: The Impact of Pandemic-induced School Closures on Student Engagement And Education Equity in Chicago Public Schools
Amy is currently completing the Doctoral Program in Psychological Sciences, Quantitative Methods at Vanderbilt University
Dana Maier-Zucchino
Thesis: Sound of Science: Music as a means for equity in STEM education
Mierel Rehich
Thesis: Does Studying Abroad Make Individuals More Virtuous?
Mierel is a Survey Project Coordinator at Nuro Retention
Emma Rudd
Thesis: It can happen to anybody:” Identity-blind rhetoric and LGBTQ inclusion in sex education dating
violence prevention
Emma is a Research Study Coordinator at the Northwestern University Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
Cody Schwartz
Thesis: A Bird in the Hands: the role of verbal working memory and visuo-spatial working memory in children’s receptive speech-gesture integration
Diqi Zeng
Thesis: The effect of linguistic diversity on 6-year-old children’s social preference for and epistemic perception of unfamiliar
language speakers