Sarah Dryden-Peterson

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Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Sarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program focused on connections between education and community development, specifically the role education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies. She is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Global education

  • Developing countries
  • Humanitarian affairs
  • Children and families
  • Civil society
  • Inequality


Experience

Current Positions

  • Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Co-Chair, Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Working Group on Education and Fragility
  • Research Director, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER), York University (Toronto)/Kenyatta University (Kenya)


Past Positions

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • Academic Consultant, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Co-Chair and Editor, Harvard Educational Review
  • Fulbright Scholar, Uganda
  • Middle School Teacher
  • Founder and Co-Director, the Mbeleni Foundation and The Idea Truck/Inqwelo yolwazi

Education

  • EdD, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2009
  • MA in Education, Tufts University, 2000
  • MPhil in History Education, University of Cape Town, 1999
  • BA, Harvard University, 1997

Language Fluency

  • French

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