Julie Dwyer

Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education
BA, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges; MEd, Harvard University; PhD, University of Michigan

Prior to completing her doctorate, Dr. Dwyer worked for five years as an early intervention reading specialist, providing direct services to struggling kindergarten and first grade readers and consulting with classroom teachers. Her research focuses on early language and literacy learning and teaching, with a particular focus on vocabulary development and the interplay between conceptual knowledge and vocabulary development. Dr. Dwyer has presented at local and national reading and educational research conferences on vocabulary development and instruction in early childhood settings. She has also published in The Reading Teacher, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and Early Childhood Education Journal.