Heddy Lahmann

About Heddy Lahmann

Dr. Heddy Lahmann is an International Education specialist whose research and interests center on arts education for youth affected by political violence. She is visiting the Harris School as a part-time lecturer in the 2021 Winter quarter. At New York University, Dr. Lahmann teaches courses focused on education, conflict, politics, and human rights. She is also the Senior Managing Editor for the Journal on Education in Emergencies, an academic peer-reviewed journal that highlights the challenges of providing education in some of the most difficult humanitarian contexts in the world.

Dr. Lahmann recently completed her doctorate in International Education, with distinction. Her dissertation is a multidisciplinary mixed methods study that focuses on a youth arts education program in Afghanistan, nominated for NYU’s Best Dissertation Award 2020-2021. In addition to her research experience, she has worked as a teaching artist, performer, and artist-researcher with children and youth domestically and internationally, including work with Clowns Without Borders, Bond Street Theatre, and the Refugee Youth Summer Academy and Saturday Learning Series with the International Rescue Committee and Artists Striving to End Poverty. Dr. Lahmann’s research has appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, and she has co-authored rigorous reviews on what works for education in conflict and crisis settings for the Education Conflict Review and the Department for International Development. Currently, she is co-conducting an evidence synthesis and gap map on social and emotional learning in humanitarian settings for USAID that aims to inform future research and programming.