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Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Professor
Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion Hall Room 205A
Telephone: 617-552-0216
Email: rebecca.lowenhaupt@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ed.M., Harvard University
- A.B., Harvard University
Courses
Human Resource Administration
Research Design III
Reflection on Leadership Seminar Information
Research Interests
K-12 school reform, education policy, immigrant education, instructional and distributed leadership, leadership for equity
Expertise
- Bilingualism & Immigration
- Educational Leadership & Policy
- Equity and Social Justice
Department
Profile
From school reform to urban education, Rebecca Lowenhaupt has focused her research on how immigration impacts school leadership. She studies the role that school principals—and other school and district leaders—play in supporting culturally diverse students. Her expertise spans social justice and instructional leadership and bilingualism. Since joining the Lynch School in 2012, she has designed and taught nine new master’s and doctoral level courses in the Educational Leadership program.
Lowenhaupt’s career in education began as a teacher for Nativity Preparatory School in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and continued as she taught in a bilingual school in Honduras. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University and a doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lowenhaupt has received funding for her work from the Spencer Foundation, the W.T. Grant Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. She is as an assistant editor for the journal Educational Policy and has contributed to numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.