Justin Hauver is a PhD Candidate in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He carries the decade he spent teaching history in his heart and into his research. Becoming and being a teacher requires caring for unpredictable students, navigating competing values, and tending to evolving selves. Beyond its learning content and techniques, teaching is also a site of existential and ethical formation animated by the love that sustains relationships. Justin studies how new teachers grapple with and embody that unruly love. He has also conducted qualitative research alongside students and educators in Colombia, middle schoolers in Boston, and preservice teachers in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Justin earned a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Fellowship and holds a BA in philosophy and German from UC Berkeley as well as an M.Ed. from HGSE.
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