Faiza M. Jamil

Faiza M. Jamil (Ph.D., Educational Psychology-Applied Developmental Science, University of Virginia) is a tenured associate professor in Education and Human Development at Clemson University’s College of Education. She teaches courses with a strong focus on how social, economic, cultural, and historical contexts influence human development, and how developing humans influence their environment. She also brings her own experiences as a K-12 teacher in three countries to her university courses.

Faiza is the founder and director of the Contexts of Learning and Development (CLAD) Lab, where she conducts interdisciplinary research in collaboration with a team of faculty members and doctoral students. With over 2000 citations, her research follows two complementary strands, with a particular focus on issues of educational equity: 1) understanding the underlying psychological processes – cognitive, social, and emotional – that influence teachers’ classroom behaviors and career decisions, and 2) understanding the ways in which teacher-child interactions influence children’s learning and development. Her current research projects apply both strands of research in support of strengthening and diversifying the teacher pipeline in the United States to support more equitable student learning and development outcomes.