Graduated Lab Members

Below is a list of graduates from the DRLRL, with information about their current affiliations.

 
 
 

Anisha Singh

Anisha graduated with a master’s degree in English from the University of Delhi, India. She moved to the United States in 2013 to pursue a second Masters in International Education from the George Washington University. Now as a doctoral student, her research focuses on reading across different media (with a special interest in audiobooks), multiple source use in online environments, and the effects of multilingualism in digital communication.

In the free time she gets as a doctoral student she likes to kick back with a good book or amble through a city.

Email | LinkedIn | Curriculum Vitae

Hongyang Zhao

Before her career at UMD, Hongyang graduated from Shandong University in China in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpretation, and graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2014 with a master's of Education in Learning and Teaching. She is now a sixth-year doctoral student focusing her research on relational reasoning and language learning. In her free time, Hongyang enjoys jogging and hiking.

Email | Curriculum Vitae

 
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Sophie Jablansky

Sophie graduated from the University of Maryland in 2013 with a degree in psychology and a minor in human development. Now in her sixth year as a doctoral student at Maryland, Sophie studies relational reasoning and its manifestations in the discourse of both individuals and teams. She also contributes to ongoing efforts to develop new, psychometrically sound measures of relational reasoning. Sophie is an avid sports fan and can often be found playing roller hockey at the nearby rink. 

Email: sjablans@umd.edu
Curriculum Vita

 
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Peter Bagetta

Email: pbaggetta@gmail.com

 
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Lauren Singer Trakhman

Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Outreach
Department of Human Development & Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland, College Park

Email: trakhman@umd.edu
Curriculum Vitae

 
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Courtney Hattan

Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning, Illinois State University

Courtney Hattan earned her PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2018 and her reading specialist degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. Dr. Hattan has worked as an elementary and middle school Language Arts and Social Studies teacher in Baltimore city and rural North Carolina, and is currently an assistant professor of elementary literacy at Illinois State University. Her program of research centers on the interplay between readers’ knowledge and what they understand and remember from text. Within that program of research, Dr. Hattan has conducted analyses of reading materials used in classrooms, observed literacy instruction, and examined the effectiveness of various techniques meant to bring students’ knowledge to mind before and during text processing.

Email: cahatta@ilstu.edu

 
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Lily Fountain

Assistant Professor of Nursing

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Email: fountain@son.umaryland.edu

 
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Denis Dumas

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

Howard University

Email: denis.dumas@howard.edu

 
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Emily Grossnickle Peterson

Post Doctoral Scholar

College of Integrated Science and Engineering, James Madison University

Department of Psychology, Georgetown University

Email: grossnem@jmu.edu 

 

Alex List

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

Ball State University

Email: alist@bsu.edu

 
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Michelle Buehl

Associate Professor of Education and Human Development

George Mason University

Email: mbuehl@gmu.edu

 

Shuhui Chiu

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education

National Taichung Teachers' College

Email: shuhui@ms3.ntcu.edu.tw

 

Soo Eun Chae

Associate Professor of Teaching Education

Gangneung-Wonju National University

Email: sooeunchae@gmail.com

 

Claudine Costich

Private Tutor

Email: ccostich@gmail.com

 

Daniel Dinsmore

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

University of North Florida

Email: daniel.dinsmore@unf.edu

 

Helenrose Fives

Professor of Educational Foundations

Montclair State University

Email: fivesh@mail.montclair.edu

 

 

Emily Fox

Adjunct Faculty

University of Maryland, College Park

Email: efox@umd.edu

 

Marva Gavins

Assistant Professor of Special Education

University of Houston Clear Lake

Email: gavins@uhcl.edu

 

Sonia Lawson

Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy & Occupational Science

Towson University

Email: slawson@towson.edu

 

Sandra Loughlin

Director, Office of Transformational Learning, Robert H. Smith School of Business

University of Maryland, College Park

Email: sandra.loughlin@gmail.com

 

Joshua Magda

 

 

Liliana Maggioni

Director of Teacher Education

The Catholic University of America

Email: maggioni@cua.edu

 

P. Karen Murphy

Professor of Educational Psychology

Penn State University

Email: pkm15@psu.edu

 
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Kristine Jones Newton

Associate Professor of Middle Grades Education

Temple University

Email: kjnewton@temple.edu

 

Meghan Parkinson

Adjunct Professor

University of North Florida

Email: meg.parkinson@gmail.com

 

Taslima Rahman

Statistician, Assessments Division

National Center for Education Statistics

Email: taslima.rahman@ed.gov

 

Deep Sran

Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer at Actively Learn, Inc.

Founder at Loudoun School for the Gifted

 

 

Jenna Yeager

Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science

Towson University

Email: jyeager@towson.edu