Biography
Dr. Andrea Kinghorn Busby is an assistant professor in the School of Family life at Brigham Young University. She studies inequality in children's home, school, and neighborhood contexts. Specifically, she researches how violence impacts children, how children and families experience poverty in suburban communities, and how parents socialize their children about economic inequality. Dr. Busby holds a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy, MA in Human Development and Social Policy, and MS in Statistics from Northwestern University. During graduate school she was an IES Fellow. She received her BS in Family Life from BYU. Before graduate school she worked as a secondary mathematics teacher in the Prince George's County School District in Maryland through Teach for America.
Research Interests
parent socialization about economic inequality, neighborhood contexts of developmentTeaching Interests
research methods, social development, child and family policyEducation
- PhD, Human Development and Social Policy , Northwestern University (2021)
- MA, Human Development and Social Policy , Northwestern University (2019)
- MS, Statistics , Northwestern University (2017)
- BS, Family Life , Brigham Young University (2012)
Memberships
- Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD) (2021 - Present)
- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) (2015 - Present)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2015 - 2023)
- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) (2021 - 2022)
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) (2015 - 2022)