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Bailey Smolarek is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Her scholarship utilizes qualitative inquiry and participatory approaches to investigate issues of educational equity and belonging in secondary and post-secondary contexts, particularly for minoritized and/or underrepresented populations. One of her current research projects, "Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub," examines the higher education experiences of Hmong students in Wisconsin. In 2017, Smolarek received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA’s Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG for her dissertation titled, "‘Unintended Consequences:’ Reforms, Race, and the Schooling Experiences of Mexican Emergent Bilinguals in New Destination High Schools." Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Morgridge Center for Public Service, and UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences