Language & Literacy Education
Suzanne Chapin
Dr. Suzanne Chapin is professor emerita of mathematics education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work covers gifted education, curriculum design, teacher professional development in mathematics, and teacher and student discourse in mathematics. A consultant to school districts on reforming school mathematics, Dr. Chapin is a frequent speaker at national […]
Henry (Erning) Chen
Henry (Erning) Chen is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is interested in international students’ socialization experience and academic development in US higher education. He is working on using ethnographic methods to study how Chinese international graduate students develop academic and social competences […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is […]
Christina L. Dobbs
Dr. Christina L. Dobbs is an associate professor and director of the English Education for Equity & Justice program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include adolescent writing development in the disciplines, supporting culturally and linguistically diverse students in secondary classrooms, disciplinary literacy, and teacher beliefs and professional […]
Elena Forzani
Dr. Elena Forzani is director of the Literacy Education and Reading Education programs and an assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Forzani’s research centers on using multiple and mixed methods to understand and support digital literacies practices across the elementary and secondary levels. In particular, her work investigates […]
Katherine Frankel
Dr. Katherine K. Frankel is an associate professor of literacy education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Frankel teaches graduate courses in literacy and qualitative methods. Her research focuses on adolescent literacy, broadly, including how to support adolescents’ literacy learning across disciplines in secondary (middle and high school) classrooms as […]
Jelonid Fuentes
Jelonid Fuentes is a program coordinator at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also a data collector coordinator for the Nuestros Niños Program. In her role, she provides administrative and logistical support for both the institute and program. Her research interests include multilingual […]
Paris Gappmayr
Paris Gappmayr is a PhD candidate in the Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences program studying sign language perception and acquisition. She is affiliated with the Wheelock Deaf Center through her work as a research assistant in the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab and is mentored by Dr. Amy Lieberman. Paris’ dissertation investigates the […]
Maliki Ghossainy
Dr. Maliki Eyvonne Ghossainy is a senior research scientist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. A psychological scientist and statistician, she integrates social, cognitive, cultural, and biological mechanisms into a model of belief formation across the early childhood years. Using mixed-methods designs, Dr. Ghossainy studies the sophisticated ways in which children judiciously […]
Ashley Houston King
Ashley Houston King is a doctoral student at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development studying language and literacy in education. Her research interests include studying the intersections of identities, race, and Blackness in education. She currently works in public middle and high schools where she is interested in studying in- and out-of-school […]