Stephanie Michelle Hall, Ph.D.

1714 Kilbourne Place NW

Apartment B
Washington, DC 20010

Education

Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park – 2018

International Education Policy
Dissertation: Privatized from the inside: A network ethnography of Brazilian teacher education
policy under the Workers’ Party (Advisor: Steven Klees)

M.A. The George Washington University – 2014

Educational Leadership and Administration, 3.97 GPA
B.S. Reinhardt College – 2001
Middle Grades Education, 3.65 GPA, Magna Cum Laude

Publications and Presentations

Articles
Edwards, Jr., D.B., & Hall, S.M. (2018). Neglected issues: How charter schools manage
teachers and acquire resources. Teachers College Record 120(10), 1-40.

Edwards Jr., D. B. & Hall, S.M (2017). Columbian Charter School Management. Working
Paper No. 234 for the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University.

Edwards, Jr., D.B., & Hall, S.M. (2017). Escolas charter: Gestão de professores e aquisição de
recursos na Colômbia. Cadernos de Pesquisa, 47(164), 442-468.

da Costa, R.B., Hall, S.M., & Spear, A. (2016). Whose reality? A meta-analysis of qualitative
research in international and comparative education. The Qualitative Report, 21(4), 661-
676.

Book Chapter
Morgan, D., Hall, S.M., Shapiro, N.S. (2018) Counting on our future: First in the World
Maryland Mathematics Reform Initiative. In: Emerging Issues in Mathematics Pathways.
The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas Austin.

Book Review
Edwards Jr., D.B., & Hall, S.M. (2016) Book review: Education and NGOs, edited by L.
Symaco. Teachers College Record.

Articles Under Review

Hall, S.M. The role of information literacy in the college choices of Brazil’s Prounistas:
Evidence from social media.
Hall, S.M. A critical analysis of higher education access in Brazil: The case of ProUni.

Hall, S.M. Improving the Brazilian teaching force through public-private partnerships: An
exploration in quality.

Hall, S.M. Location, location, location: Understanding the college choice process of low-income
Brazilians.

Conference Presentations
Hamman, J., Vincent, M.B., Nash, M., Talley, P., & Hall, S.M. (2019). Thinking with the end in
mind: Building corequisite pathways for developmental education. Paper to be presented
at the 2019 Achieving the Dream Conference in Long Beach, CA.

Halls, S.M., & Morgan, D. (2018). Perceptions of advising for new math pathways: Exploring
the legacy of traditional developmental education. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the American Evaluation Association in Cleveland, OH.

Halls, S.M. (2018). Brazilian teacher education under the Workers’ Party: Using network
ethnography to follow the effects of neoliberal globalization. Paper presented at the 2018
Student Research Conference of the Washington Area Consortium for International and
Comparative Education and Training.

da Costa, R., & Hall, S.M. (2018). Social change through popular education: The case of two
alternative universities in Brazil. Paper prepared for the 2018 annual meeting of the
Comparative and International Education Society

Edwards, Jr., D.B., Morrison, J.E., & Hall, S.M. (2017). Interrogating, mapping, and theorizing
the mobility of global education policy: The case of Colombia’s charter school program.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Educational
Research in Copenhagen.

Hall, S.M. (2017). Higher education: Sanctuary or risk? Paper presented at the annual student
research conference of the Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland
College Park.

Edwards, Jr., D.B., Morrison, J.E., & Hall, S.M. (2017). Global education policy as echo:
Unpacking the global promotion of Colombia’s charter school reform. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Antonio,
TX.

Halls, S.M. (2017). “Change is difficult but possible”: What is Brazil’s political-pedagogical
strategy since Freire? Paper presented at the 2017 Student Research Conference of the
Washington Area Consortium for International and Comparative Education and Training.

Hall, S.M. (2016). Empty promises? The results of Brazil's National Education Plan. Paper
presented at the annual student research conference of the Latin American Studies
Center, University of Maryland College Park.

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Hall, S.M. (2016). Improving the Brazilian teaching force through public-private partnerships:
An exploration in quality. Paper presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Comparative
and International Education Society.

Hall, S.M. (2015). University for All: A critical analysis of higher education access in Brazil.
Paper presented at the annual student research conference of the Latin American Studies
Center, University of Maryland, College Park.

da Costa, R.B., Hall, S.M., & Spear, A. (2015). Whose reality? A meta-analysis of qualitative
research in international and comparative education. Poster presented at the 2015 annual
meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society.

Other Presentation
Shapiro, N.S., Morgan, D., & Hall, S.M. (2015, December 1). Joint Chairmen's Report: Report
to ensure high quality teachers R75T00. Presented to the Maryland General Assembly
House Committee on Ways and Means, Education Subcommittee.

Awards and Grants

2018 UMD College of Education Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration
(SPARC) Grant – Doctoral Candidate Award

2017 David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar Participant, AERA Annual
Conference, San Antonio, Texas

2017 New Economy Maryland Fellowship, Institute for Policy Studies (Professional
Development Fellowship in Public Scholarship)

2016 University of Maryland College of Education Scholarship Award

2015 Summer School Scholarship Grant, Higher School of Economics, National

Research University Moscow

2015 Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland Graduate School

2014 Doctoral Fellowship Award, University of Maryland Graduate School

2013-2014 Teacher of the Year, The American School of Belo Horizonte

Service
Ad hoc reviewer: Critical Studies in Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives

Latin American Studies Center @UMD, Graduate Research Conference Planning Committee,
2016, 2017.

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Graduate Student Government, Higher, International, and Special Education Program
Representative, 2014.

Professional Experience

Fellow. (2018-present). The Century Foundation. Washington, DC.

Independent Education Consultant. (2017-2018). edBridge Partners LLC.

Graduate Assistant. (2015-2018). University System of Maryland Office of Academic and

Student Affairs. College Park, MD.

Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara. (2015-2017). Internal Evaluation of the
University of Maryland National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Project.

Graduate Intern (2013). Participatory Budgeting Project, New York.

• developed curriculum in support of the organization’s goal of engaging youth in
local, democratic processes

P-12 School Improvement Coordinator (2012-2014). Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

• coordinated national accreditation review
• planned teacher professional development opportunities
• recruited and screened teacher candidates

Secondary School Teacher (2001-2014). Locations: Atlanta, US; Porto Alegre, Brazil; & Belo
Horizonte, Brazil.
• taught International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme and Advanced
Placement courses
• formed and sponsored a highly successful Model United Nations program that
included annual cross-country conference participation

Languages
English, native proficiency.
Brazilian Portuguese, full professional/fluent proficiency.
Spanish, elementary proficiency.

Professional Affiliations

American Educational Research Association

Association for the Study of Higher Education

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Comparative and International Education Society
Latin American Studies Association