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