Research Affiliates
Emily Miller
Emily Miller is a research assistant with the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include the impact of trauma on mental health and the roles that social drivers of health and relational health play in promoting well-being. She has experience […]
Sara Moran
Sara Moran is a research fellow at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work with CEED focuses on identifying barriers and improving outcomes for marginalized children and families through early childhood initiatives. Before joining CEED, Ms. Moran served as the associate […]
Jenny Nissel
Dr. Jenny Nissel is a research assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research explores the imagination across cultures and development. In her primary line of work, she investigates possibility conceptions, with a particular focus on how theories about the way the world works—both natural and sociocultural—constrain developing beliefs […]
Chong Myung Park
Dr. Chong Myung Park is a research scientist in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on the examination of career development in K–12 and post-secondary settings and as a lifelong learning process. Specific areas of research include college and career […]
Katharine Parodi
Dr. Katharine (Katie) Parodi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. As a postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Parodi contributes to conducting statistical analyses as part of an NIJ-funded research study investigating root causes of bias-based harassment among adolescents. Dr. Parodi’s research also examines temporal trends in youth […]
Carla Romney
Dr. Carla Romney is the director of research for CityLab, a pre-college biomedical sciences program that develops and implements laboratory-based curriculum supplements that are intended to inspire young people to pursue STEM and health professions careers. As a principal investigator on CityLab’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award grants, she is responsible […]
Emily Saunders
Dr. Emily Saunders is a postdoctoral research associate in the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab at BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research centers on the dynamics of visual attention between deaf children and their signing caregivers, with a particular focus on early literacy activities such as shared book reading. […]
Annabel Stoler
Dr. Annabel Stoler is a postdoctoral research associate in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She works with Dr. Meghan Shaughnessy to explore collaborative pedagogical reasoning between mentor and novice teachers. Her research focuses on the relational aspects of teaching math and science, and she seeks […]
Emily Stolz
Emily Stolz is a research fellow at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University. Her research interests center on the ways in which schools support the ethnic-racial identity development of young children. She approaches this topic from a strengths-based, ecological lens by considering the messages that children receive about their […]
Sarah Suárez
Dr. Sarah Suárez is a postdoctoral associate in the Social Learning Lab at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies children’s conceptual development, causal learning, and critical thinking in informal learning contexts, with an interest in understanding the nature and development of individual differences. Pronouns: she/her