Dr. Meredith Rowe

Biography

Meredith Rowe is a Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She leads a research program dedicated to understanding the role of parent and family factors in children's early language and literacy development. Her research particularly focuses on uncovering the features of children's early communicative environments that contribute to language and cognitive development, applying these insights toward intervention strategies for caregivers. Rowe received her Doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University in 2003 and subsequently pursued postdoctoral fellowships in the psychology and sociology departments at the University of Chicago. Before joining Harvard in 2014, she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland from 2009 to 2014. Rowe's work has been funded by several organizations, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is widely published in top journals in education and psychology, establishing her as an expert in language and cognitive development during early childhood, particularly regarding the roles played by parents, socioeconomic status, culture, and experience in child development.

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