Nancy E. Gans
Nancy graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education in 2016. After four years of teaching elementary school in Columbus, Ohio and Charlottesville, VA, she chose to come back to Ohio State to pursue a master's degree in Educational Psychology and graduated in 2021. Nancy is currently in her second year pursuing a Doctoral degree in Educational Psychology. She is interested in studying the motivation of elementary-aged students and the methods of their teachers. Specific research interests for Nancy include socio-cultural learning in diverse communities, culturally and racially sustaining pedagogies, and epistemic cognition. Nancy hopes to continue working with teachers and students for a long time!
In her free time, Nancy enjoys reading, traveling to new places, hiking, and going on long walks with her husband and their two dogs, Thompson and Harrison.
