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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen’s research examines Mexican heritage families’ beliefs and experiences with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is particularly interested in how parents’ beliefs about ASD causes, symptoms, and treatments shape parents’ educational decisions, childrearing goals, and parenting practices.
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Tom Humphries
Dr. Tom Humphries' research interests include communication and culture, deaf education, bilingual education, deaf studies, second language learning/teaching.
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Paula Levin
Dr. Paula Levin has conducted research on language, schooling, and culture in the United States, as well as in French Polynesia and Papua New Guinea. Her research focuses on learning, early literacy, teacher preparation, home-school relationships, curriculum design, and social, linguistic, and cultural aspects of learning.
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Mica Pollock
Dr. Mica Pollock’s research explores how diverse communities can come together in student support efforts. In multiple projects based in schools, districts, cities, community organizations, and the government, Pollock has asked how people might communicate so they can work together to support every young person’s talent development.
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Alison Wishard Guerra
Dr. Alison Wishard Guerra’s research focuses on culture and development in early childhood – with particular focus on social and language development among Latino children from low-income families. Her research looks specifically at how social relationships and interactions may serve as protective factors for later cognitive development among at-risk children.