Past dissertation prize winners
- Kate Watson, University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation title: “Social Worker Perceptions of Trauma-Informed Schools: A Multistudy, Mixed Method Analsis of School Practices, Policies, and Climate”
- Not awarded
- Elianny Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation Title: “Centering Racism to Examine School Safety for Black High School Students”
- Jennifer Renick, University of California, Irvine; Dissertation Title: “Developmentally Appropriate Educational Environments: Exploring the Impact of Student Autonomy and Interpersonal Relationships on Diverse Young Adolescents”
Ashley Grant, Johns Hopkins University; Dissertation Title: “Testing the Promise of Restorative Practices for Reducing Teacher Turnover in Hard-to-Staff Schools”
Kelsie Reed, Loyola University Chicago; Dissertation Title: Investigating Exclusionary Discipline: Teachers, Deficit Thinking, and Racial Disproportionality”
- Not awarded
Dandan Chen, University of Delaware; Dissertation Title: “Optimizing the Efficiency and Precision of the Delaware School Climate Scale: An Application of Multivariate Generalizability Theory”
Gordon Capp, University of Southern California; Dissertation Title: “School Staff Perceptions of School Climate: A Mixed-Methods Multistudy Examination of Staff School Climate at the State, Regional, and School Levels”
Hadass Moore, University of Southern California; Dissertation Title: “An Ecological Mixed-Method Analysis of Homeless Students’ School Experience at the State, District and School Levels”
Pooja Datta, University of Virginia; Dissertation Title: “Social Contexts of Bullying in Adolescence: Roles of Bystanders, Teachers, and Dating Partners”
- Kristin Reimer, University of Ottawa; Dissertation Title: “Restorative Justice as a Window into Relationships: Student Experiences of Social Control and Social Engagement in Scotland and Canada”
Francis Huang
Professor / SIG Program Chair
My research interests include school climate, school violence, and threat assessment. My methodological interests focus on the analysis of clustered data (multilevel modeling).