Johanna Bernard

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market.

 

My research focuses on how educational and broader social policies for young children can have sustained effects on skill development. My current work includes looking at treatment contrast of a state pre-k program; a cross-sector project that aims to make connections between service participation in early childhood and academic outcomes in early elementary school; examining the cost-effectiveness of parenting programs in humanitarian contexts; and examining the longitudinal effects of a literacy curriculum.

 

I am a 2024-2025 AERA-NSF Dissertation Fellow. I am also a pre-doctoral fellow with the Institute of Education Sciences. At Penn, I work closely with Professor Brooks Bowden and am an affiliated researcher with the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education.

 

I hold an M.Ed. in Child Studies with a specialization in Poverty and Intervention from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, and additionally have a B.A. in Psychology from Bowdoin College.

 

I'm originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, but I live in Washington, DC. Contact me at jvab@upenn.edu. And please, call me "Hanna".