CV
Curriculum Vitae
Download the full CV (PDF) · Updated August 2026
Academic Appointment
2024–
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Florida State University
Education
2018–2024
PhD, Education — Harvard Graduate School of Education
Education Policy & Program Evaluation. Dissertation: Essays on educational and labor market transitions. Committee: Christopher Avery, Luke Miratrix (advisor), Lindsay Page.
2010–2011
MA, Political Science — Georgia State University
Thesis: The political economy of federal assistance: Demand-side determinants of new awards
1996–2000
BA, Economics and Russian & East European Studies — Wesleyan University
London School of Economics, General Course, 1998–1999
Honors and Fellowships
2022–2023
AERA–NSF Grants Program Dissertation Grantee
2021–2022
ECMC Foundation Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Research Fellow
2020–2022
Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow
2020
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
2020
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Summer Fellow
2019–2020
AERA Division H Outstanding Publication Competition, Winner
2012–2014
Strategic Data Project Fellow (Cohort 3)
Recent Publications
2026
Economic returns to postsecondary credential stacking
with Jeremy Wright-Kim · Education Finance and Policy, in press
2025
Informal social interactions, academic achievement and behavior: Evidence from peers on the school bus
with Mikko Silliman · The Economic Journal, 135(671), 2359–2373
2025
Balancing weights for estimating treatment effects in educational studies
with Luke Keele, Eli Ben-Michael & Lindsay Page · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
2025
The attraction of magnet schools: Evidence from embedded lotteries in school assignment
with Umut Dur, Robert Hammond, Melinda Morrill, Thayer Morrill & Colleen Paeplow · Economics of Education Review, 107, 102663
2024
Overlap violations in clustered observational studies of educational interventions
with Luke Keele & Lindsay Page · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 17(1), 1–18
All publications, including work under review, appear on the Research page.
Paper Awards
2022
Economics of Education Review Best Paper Award
Hill, Hughes, Lenard, Liebowitz & Page, “New schools and new classmates: The disruption and peer group effects of school reassignment”
2021
Vernon Prize, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Domina, Carlson, Carter III, Lenard, McEachin & Perera, “The kids on the bus: The academic consequences of diversity-driven school reassignments”