Ph.D. Social and Comparative Analysis in Education, University of Pittsburgh

Emily R. Koren is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education working with Adrianna Kezar on the NSF-funded FACE (Faculty Academic Careers and Environments in Service of Equity) project. She earned her PhD in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education from the University of Pittsburgh with a minor in quantitative research methods and a certificate in Latin American Social and Public Policy. Emily is a multiply dis/abled scholar who uses critical quantitative methods to study postsecondary and community education. As a critical dis/ability scholar, her current research examines the intersection between ethnoracial and dis/ability identities, particularly in the context of Hispanic Serving Institutions. Emily is especially interested in disrupting normative understandings of mental health and learning dis/abilities. Her dissertation examined the social support networks of Latinx students with dis/abilities at one Hispanic Serving Institution.

Emily previously taught high school Spanish and social studies in Truckee, California and Durango, Colorado. She is originally from Buffalo, NY and is a former Division I women’s ice hockey player.

Expertise
Critical dis/ability studies in education | equity and justice in higher education | intersections of ethnoracial identity and dis/ability in education | critical quantitative methods | Hispanic Serving Institutions | educational evaluation