Hi there,
My name is Guicheng Tan,
but most people know me as Ariel.
I'm currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard University (Education: Human Development, Learning & Technology). I am co-advised by Dr. Dana Charles McCoy and Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor from Stanford Graduate School of Education. I am a member of the Settings for Early Education and Development (SEED) Lab and the data manager for the Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development (AERID) Lab family.
Broadly speaking, I’m interested in how people learn and integrate different cultures (e.g., biculturalism) across contexts (e.g., immigration, education). More recently, my work has focused on how cognitive and identity development work together to inform positive youth development, especially for those growing up with cross-cultural, multicultural, and marginalizing experiences.
In addition to this scholarship, I’ve studied how ethnic-racial identity influences students’ academic and psychosocial outcomes, how anti-Asian bias negatively predicts support for the Stop AAPI Hate movement, and how to support Asian and international students in schools (click here for my current CV).
Here is a recap vlog of my first semester of grad school!
Outside of academia, I have over 6 years of experience working in higher education, specifically in residential life, student leadership, diversity training, and admissions.
When I’m not working, I’m probably playing video games, organizing or redecorating my place, playing with my daughter, my cats, and my husband (or all of them), and plotting social events with my lovely cohort.