Hilary Chart
Email: hilary.chart@gmail.com

At PACE, Hilary helped develop triarchic measures of giftedness as Project Director for the Aurora Project. She also coordinated field research in Zambia for the Learning Disabilities Project there.

Her primary interests are cross-cultural perspectives on learning and schools and the implications of both for education systems and policy, particularly among at-risk populations in the United States and in southern Africa. She plans to begin her doctoral studies in Education in fall 2007.

Anna Cianciolo
Email: acianciolo@cpresearch.net

Anna T. Cianciolo was a postdoctoral associate at the PACE Center until 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in engineering psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. She is now the President and Senior Behavioral Scientist of Command Performance Research, Inc. in Champaign, IL. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Human Factors Division at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Joe Elliot
Email: joe.elliott@durham.ac.uk

After graduating from the University of Durham, England, in 1977, Joe taught in special and mainstream education for several years prior to training as an educational psychologist (EP). He worked as an EP for five years prior to entering the University of Sunderland in 1990. When he left Sunderland in January 2004, he was Professor of Educational Psychology and Acting Dean of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. Joe is currently Professor of Education at the University of Durham. Joe's research interests include achievement motivation, special education, behaviour management, psychological assessment and treatment of childhood disorders and cognitive education. He is Immediate Past President of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and member of several Editorial Boards including, Learning and Individual Differences, Comparative Education and the British Educational Research Journal.

Matthew Jukes
Email: jukesma@gse.harvard.edu
webpage: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~jukesma/

Matthew Jukes is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research aims to improve access and quality of education in developing countries. He is interested in the evaluation of education interventions through the development of assessment methods. Matthew has applied these methods to the evaluation of many different education interventions, with a particular focus on school health programs. These programs aim to improve children’s learning through the treatment and prevention of common conditions such as worm infections, malaria and iron deficiency. This work is described in a recent book: Health, Nutrition and Education for All: Leveling the Playing Field. Matthew’s work has also addressed the intersection of health and education through work on HIV/AIDS prevention education and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The other main area of Matthew’s research investigates how many children in sub-Saharan Africa succeed at school despite many challenges facing them and their families. Matthew has conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Gambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

David Presiss
Email: davidpreiss@uc.cl
website: http://web.mac.com/ddpreiss/

David is an Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He got his Ph.D. at Yale in 2005, where he wrote a dissertation on the dominant instructional patterns in the Chilean schools, a topic he is still researching. In addition, David does research on the intellectual consequences of schooling and technology use as well as on creative writing.

Judith Randi
Email: jrandi@newhaven.edu

Judi Randi received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University and is now an Associate Professor of Education at the University of New Haven. She has conducted research and development activities with classroom teacher researchers. Her research focuses on teacher professional learning, collaborative research, and the research-practice connection. She has co-authored several book chapters on teacher-researcher collaboration.

Sara Sparrow
Email: sara.sparrow@yale.edu

Sara Sparrow, Ph.D. in clinical psychology and neuropsychology from the University of Florida, is the author of over 100 articles and chapters in the fields of psychological assessment and developmental disabilities. She is the senior author of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and is actively engaged in the revision of the Vineland, Vineland II. She is also co-editor (along with Drs. Ami Klin and Fred Volkmar) of a recent book on Asperger's syndrome. Her main research interests involve the assessment of adaptive behavior, autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, child neuropsychology, and other developmental disabilities. Dr. Sparrow recently served on National Research Council, (National Academy of Sciences) Committee on Disability Determination for Mental Retardation. She was cofounder of the Journal of Child Neuropsychology and served as co-editor for five years. She recently received the Career Scientist Award from the American Academy of Mental Retardation.

Steven Stemler, Former Assistant Director
Email: sstemler@wesleyan.edu
Steve's Wesleyan Home Page

Steve Stemler is the former assistant director of the PACE Center. He is now an assistant professor of psychology at Wesleyan University.

Past Doctoral Students

• Elena L. Grigorenko (Yale University)
• Linda O'Hara (California State University, Long Beach)
• Michael Gardner (University of Utah)
• Roger Tourangeau (National Opinion Research Center)
• Martin Guyote (Consultant)
• Timothy McNamara (Vanderbilt Chair)
• Richard Wagner (Florida State University)
• Janet Davidson (Lewis & Clark University)
• Cynthia Berg (University of Utah)
• Louise Spear-Swerling (Southern Connecticut State University)
• Diana Marr (Educational Testing Service)
• Sheldon Tetewsky (McGill University)
• Julie Sincoff (Tufts University)
• John Kolligian (Columbia University)
• David Kalmar (Consultant)
• Wendy Williams (Cornell University)
• Peter Frensch (Humboldt University)
• Anne Beall (Marketing Consultant)
• Marek Chawarski (Yale University)
• Todd Lubart (University of Paris V)
• Michael Barnes (Vice President, SAI Analytics)
• Mahzad Hojjat (Assistant Professor of Psychology; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
• Talia Ben-Zeev (San Francisco State University)
• Kefentse Mzwinila (MS) (Head of Psychology, Botswana Army)
• Jason Marino (MS) (Special Assistant for Health Care Policy to U.S. Senator Robert Byrd)
• Shih-ying Yang (Assistant Professor; in Graduate Institute of National Chi-Nan University)
• James C. Kaufman (Assistant Professor of Psychology/Director of the Learning Research Institute at California State University, San Bernardino)
• Weihua Niu (Pace University)
• Jean Pretz (Illinois Wesleyan University)
• Chris Rate (United States Air Force)
• Scott Kaufman (Yale University)
• Adam Naples (Yale University)
• Jennifer Jordan (Dartmouth)
• Karin Weis (University of Heidelberg)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Daniel Kaye (Director of Research, Universal Studios)
• David Caruso (Consultant)
• Lynn Okagaki (Commissioner of Education Research, IES)
• Joseph Horvath (IBM)
• Pamela Clinkenbeard (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
• Bruce Torff (Hofstra University)
• Michel Ferrari (University of Toronto)
• Christina Schwartz
• William B. Disch
• Renate Otterbach
• Jacqueline Leighton
• Pamela Hartman
• Smaragda Kazi
• PJ Henry (DePaul University)
• Nefeli Misuraca
• Carolyn Parish
• Alina Reznitskaya (Montclair State University)
• Jonna Kwiatkowski (Emmanuel University)
• Nancy Fredine