Aubrey H. Wang, Ph.D. is a Professor of Educational Leadership, Saint Joseph’s University. Dr. Wang has three strands of research, each representing a different aspect of her identity as a scholar. As a secondary longitudinal analyst, she is deeply interested in the question of how young children develop and learn. Her co-authored studies have been published in high-quality journals such as the Contemporary Educational Psychology, Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Journal of Cognition and Development, and Cognitive Development. As an education intervention researcher, Dr. Wang firmly believes in developing scholar-practitioner leaders who can design and deliver effective educational interventions. She has co-published several articles and gave multiple presentations with her doctoral students at international and national conferences. Lastly, as a methodologist who teaches quantitative and mixed methods, Dr. Wang’s co-authored case studies on teacher quality and the black-white achievement gap have been widely cited. Dr. Wang’s impressive scholarly productivity earned her the 2018 Research Merit Award. Dr. Wang achieved this stellar record of scholarly leadership while she advises/advised approximately 45 dissertation advisees, served for four years as the Ed.D. program director, serves as chair of the Institutional Review Board, and teaches eight different assessment and research courses. In addition, Dr. Wang is a program co-chair and board member of the Early Education/Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, an international research advisor for the National Taiwan Normal University, ad hoc reviewer for different journals, and external reviewer for different universities within and outside the United States. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Policy Research, Evaluation and Measurement from the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, where she also received the 2019 Ethel and Allen “Buddy” Carruth Sustained Leadership in Education Award.
