Graduate School of Education
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Prashant Loyalka
Associate Professor of Education and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrashant's research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of youth and on understanding/improving the quality of education received by youth in a number of countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. In the course of addressing educational inequalities, Prashant examines the consequences of tracking, financial and informational constraints, as well as social and psychological factors in highly competitive education systems. His work on understanding educational quality is built around research that assesses and compares student learning in higher education, high school and compulsory schooling. He furthermore conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.
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Anna Lukkarinen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioAnna Lukkarinen is a SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research) Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Her current research focuses on sustainability and ethics in entrepreneurial finance. Previously, Anna has investigated investment activity in equity crowdfunding, including topics such as secondary markets, cross-border investing, and investor motivations.
Anna holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods of Economics and Management Science from Aalto University in Finland. She has a teacher’s qualification from the University of Helsinki in Finland and has taught courses in strategic management, business mathematics, and statistics. Before academia, Anna worked in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and in investment banking at Citigroup. -
Leslie Patricia Luqueño
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Other Tech - Graduate, SoM - Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Student EducationCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research lies at the intersection of higher education, immigration, and family studies, with an emphasis on how the children of Latinx immigrants make sense of their higher education trajectories and aspirations. I am particularly interested in the role of families within college choice decision-making and employ both qualitative and data science methods to investigate how familial values and knowledge is employed throughout the college application process for Latinx students.
