PhD
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
Courtney Hattan is an assistant professor in the science of reading. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Maryland and her reading specialist degree from Johns Hopkins University. Hattan’s research interests are shaped by her experiences as a language arts and social studies teacher at the elementary and middle school levels. Specifically, Hattan’s work centers on fair and empirically supported instruction that supports students in activating and building their background knowledge during reading. She was the 2019 recipient of the Timothy and Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award and was named a Reading Hall of Fame Emerging Scholars Fellow.
