I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research centers on the financing of higher education, the influence of geographic context on educational outcomes, and the factors shaping students’ choice of academic major.

More specifically, I examine the interplay between gender inequality and STEM major selection; the connections among rurality, urbanity, and student loan default; and the ways in which financial aid structures influence graduates’ transition into the labor market, including their first job placement and long-term employment trajectories.

You can find my vitae here.

Work in Progress

• Exploring the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and Graduation with a STEM Degree
• Financial Pressure and Early Career Outcomes
• Geography Matters: The Geography of Opportunity and Student Loan Default

Revise and Resubmission

• National Patterns in STEM Degree and Career Outcomes for Single Parent Students: Evidence from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Survey (2016-2020), at Research in Higher Education.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• (2025) Why do some women choose STEM majors? International Journal of STEM Education, forthcoming.

Teaching

• Lecturer
  • (2023) Fall-present: College Writing (Eng 112)

Other Publications

• (2022) Traditional Remediation Ends in Low Completion of Remediation and College Degree. Center for Student Success Policy Brief No. X pdf
• (2020) Neo-liberal Education Policy. In I. Kocabas (Ed.). Economics of Education (pp.389-409). AOAS Publications.
• (2019) Foundation university students’ consumer orientation and learner identity levels and their correlations with academic performance. Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 84(1), 71–92 pdf
• (2018) Öğrenci Tüketici Yönelim ve Öğrenen Kimlik Düzeyini Belirleme Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanması, YILDIZ Journal of Educational Research, 3 (1), 1-26 pdf

Translations

• (2021) Taking the first step: define the problem. In A. Balyer (Ed.), Policy Development and Analysis in Education for Managers. Anı Publishing: Ankara.