Faculty and Projects

Following boot camp, EI Fellows will be matched to a faculty member and their research project based on their indicated interest areas and background; for the remaining duration of the program, they will work full-time with their faculty and research team. The following faculty members at the GSE have agreed to take on an undergraduate fellow in Summer 2025. 

Examples of each faculty member's ongoing research projects are also listed - these are not the actual projects that Fellows will work on in 2025. More concrete project details will be available in late winter-early spring 2025.

  • Thomas Dee
    Thomas Dee

    Barnett Family Professor, Faculty Director of the John Gardner Center
    Stanford University

    Example project: Examining the effects of middle and high school math detracking policies on student engagement and outcomes

  • Judith Fan
    Judith Fan

    Assistant Professor of Psychology
    Stanford University

    Example project:

  • Guilherme Lichand
    Guilherme Lichand

    Assistant Professor of Education; Co-Director of Stanford Lemann Center
    Stanford University

    Example project: Investigating sources of education inequities in the global south, and interventions with the potential to overturn them

  • Susanna Loeb
    Susanna Loeb

    Professor of Education; Director of SCALE Initiative
    Stanford University

    Example project: The National Student Support Accelerator: Translating promising research about how tutoring can benefit students into action on the ground

  • Jelena Obradović
    Jelena Obradović

    Professor; Director, SPARK Lab
    Stanford University

    Example project: Early childhood intervention to disrupt disproportionality in preschool exclusionary discipline and special education referrals

  • (Francis) Alvin Pearman
    (Francis) Alvin Pearman

    Assistant Professor of Education
    Stanford University

    Example project: Examining Racial (In)equity in School-Closure Patterns in California

  • Sean Reardon
    Sean Reardon

    Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology
    Stanford University

    Example project: The Educational Opportunity Project: Harnessing data to help scholars, policymakers, educators, and parents learn how to improve educational opportunity for all children