Faculty
Ann Herzog
Ann Herzog is a clinical instructor in the Child Life & Family-Centered Care program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. In the Media
Petra Hesse
Dr. Petra Hesse is an associate professor of applied human development at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests are children’s emotional development and emotional education, children’s political socialization and political education, and children’s media and media literacy education. Trained in developmental and clinical psychology and international relations, Dr. Hesse […]
Melissa K. Holt
Dr. Melissa K. Holt is an associate professor in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and a licensed psychologist. She is also the director of the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. Dr. Holt’s research explores how adolescents’ exposure to violence—particularly bias-based harassment (i.e. harassment based on one’s identity)—influences […]
Kimberly A. S. Howard
Dr. Kimberly A. S. Howard is an associate professor of counseling psychology & applied human development at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where she serves as director of training of the Counseling Psychology PhD program. Dr. Howard’s research interests include the career development process of children and youth, particularly as it is […]
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and language revitalization. Her first language acquisition research focuses on the interaction of syntactic and discourse–pragmatic […]
Lisa Ijiri
Dr. Lisa Ijiri is a clinical professor and senior advisor to the dean at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a senior academic administrator with over 30 years of experience in higher education leadership. Her lifelong focus has been on student access, diversity and inclusion, new program development, and educational effectiveness, […]
Anthony Abraham Jack
Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University. Dr. Jack’s research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the Doubly Disadvantaged—those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools—and the Privileged Poor, or those who do so from […]
Davena Jackson
Dr. Davena Jackson is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where she focuses on English education, language, and literacy. A veteran English educator of more than 20 years, her research-practice partnerships have sought to disrupt anti-Blackness, anti-Black racism, and […]
Laura M. Jiménez
Dr. Laura M. Jiménez, BU Wheelock’s associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion and a senior lecturer in literacy education, has always been intrigued by the ways elements such as purpose, person, text, and context, of any given reading event interact to influence reading comprehension and meaning making in the classroom. Studying both literature and […]
Nathan Jones
Dr. Nathan Jones is an associate professor in the Special Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is affiliated faculty with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC) and is a founding member of the BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Beginning on September 1, 2023, Dr. Jones is on […]