Ashwin Raghuraman ‘27

Ashwin Raghuraman works with Dr. Nikhit D'Sa in the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child on its project to measure Teacher Agency in Uganda. Raghuraman specifically focuses on the conceptualization of teacher agency in academic literature, and previous attempts to quantify agency. His research also includes assessing the impact of top-level frameworks in refugee education in a comparative analysis study, which is also supervised by Dr. D'Sa. Raghuraman also works with the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he assists on a project to quantitatively track impact factors of publications. Raghuraman studies global affairs and Russian at Notre Dame, and received a Pushkin Grant and Summer Language Abroad grant to study Russian in Kyrgyzstan this past summer. Last semester, Ashwin was also a part of the Kellogg Developing Researchers Program, where he began his work with Professor D'Sa. On campus, Raghuraman is Captain of the Notre Dame Debate Team, where he won first place at the ACC National Championship in D.C. last year.