Email: pm3282@nyu.edu
Program: PhD in Developmental Psychology
Year Entered Program: 2021
Research Interests: Latine children's early math development, family math engagement, and the intersection between culture, language, and math in early childhood.
Principal Advisor(s): Dr. Gigliana Melzi
Research Description/Bio:
Paola Montúfar (she/her/ella) is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology Program at NYU Steinhardt working with Dr. Gigliana Melzi in the Culture, Families, and Early Development (CFD) Lab. Broadly, she is interested in bilingual Latine children’s and families’ early STEM experiences and STEM engagement. She is particularly interested in using culturally grounded and strengths-based approaches to examine the family practices that support bilingual Latine children's early math learning. Through this work she hopes to expand and challenge underlying assumptions of what math learning is, what math learning is for, and how math is learned in early childhood.
Paola holds a BA in Psychology with Honors from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). While at UTSA, she completed an Honors thesis, "'Two times four' equals 'Dos por cuatro': A study of memory for arithmetic in bilinguals" under the mentorship of Dr. Nicole Wicha.