Alla Korzh, EdD
Dr. Alla Korzh teaches research methods, doctoral seminars, and capstone courses in the EdD and MA programs. Her research focuses on education inequities experienced by socio-economically disadvantaged children, youth, and adults at the secondary and post-secondary education levels. She has conducted qualitative research with orphans and incarcerated women in Ukraine, as well as formerly incarcerated women in New York City. Her earlier collaborative research project examined transnational young adults’ participation in social movements and informal citizenship education. Her current research project investigates incarcerated women’s educational aspirations in a minimum-security prison in Ukraine and barriers they face post-incarceration.
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Graduate Courses Taught
Research Methods I
Research Methods IV
Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar
Practitioner Inquiry
Theory, Practice, and Policy of International Education
Reflective Practice
Capstone Seminar
Select Publications and Policy Activities
Korzh, A. (Under Preparation). Methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas in conducting research with institutionalized populations
Korzh, A. (Forthcoming). “You have been punished in prison. And then when you are released, you are punished for life”: Post-incarceration barriers for women in Ukraine. International Sociology Journal
Korzh, A. (2021). Education behind bars and beyond prison: Incarcerated women’s education aspirations and barriers in Ukraine. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2021.1941775
Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S., & Marshall, A. (2020). Euromaidan abroad: The social motivations of young Ukrainian immigrants. Nationalities Papers, 1-13. DOI: 10.1017/nps.2020.59
Kovalchuk, S. & Korzh, A. (2019). The transnational activism of young Ukrainian immigrants. In O. Oleinikova & J. Bayeh (Eds.), Democracy, diaspora, territory (pp. 127-144). London, UK: Routlege
Silova, I., Sobe, N., Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (Eds.). (2017). Reimagining utopias: Theory and method for educational research in post-socialist contexts. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers
Silova, I., Sobe, N., Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (2017). Introducing research dilemmas in post- socialist education contexts. In I. Silova, N. Sobe, A. Korzh & S. Kovalchuk (Eds.), Reimagining utopias: Theory and method for educational research in post-socialist contexts (pp. 1-14). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Sobe, N., Silova, I., Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (2017). Reimagining utopias. In I. Silova, N. Sobe, A. Korzh, & S. Kovalchuk (Eds.), Reimagining utopias: Theory and method for educational research in post-socialist contexts (pp. 301-316). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Korzh, A. (2015). Fieldwork dilemmas: Conducting qualitative research with institutionalized youth in Ukraine. In S. Bastien & H. Holmarsdottir (Eds.), Youth at the margins: Experiences from engaging youth in research worldwide (pp. 241-259). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers
Korzh, A. (2015). Education in Ukrainian orphanages: Hidden curriculum for social reproduction or transformation? In E.L. Brown, P.C. Gorski & G. Lazaridis (Eds.), Poverty, class, and schooling: Global perspectives on economic justice and educational equity (pp. 281-302). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing
Korzh, A. (2014). ‘Adapting’ education to student needs: Unchallenging education in Ukrainian orphanages. In Napier, D. B. (Ed.), Qualities of education in a globalized world (pp. 167-184). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers
Korzh, A. (2013). What are we educating our youth for? The role of education in the era of vocational schools for “dummies” and diploma mill universities in Ukraine. European Education: Issues and Studies, 45(1), 50-73
Select Presentations
Korzh, A. (2021, April). Education post-incarceration: Barriers to education for women in Ukraine [Conference presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting of Comparative & International Education Society, virtual
Korzh, A. (2021, April). New Scholars Committee Publication Mentoring Workshop [Mentored doctoral candidates and graduates]. Comparative & International Education Society, virtual
Korzh, A. (2020, March). New Scholars Committee Dissertation Mentoring Workshop [Mentored doctoral candidates and graduates]. Comparative & International Education Society, virtual
Korzh, A. (2019, October). Home-grown social movements as sites of informal citizenship education of transnational young people [Conference presentation]. Nordic Comparative & International Education Society and Global Comparative & International Education Forum, Stockholm, Sweden
Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (2018, October). Transnational activism of young Ukrainian immigrants [Conference presentation]. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Korzh, A. (2018, March). Methodological and ethical quandaries in research with youth on the margins: The case of orphanage youth in Ukraine [Conference presentation]. Comparative & International Education Society, Mexico City, Mexico
Kovalchuk, S. & Korzh, A. (2017, August). Transnational activism of young Ukrainian immigrants. [Conference presentation]. WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (2017, May). Political and social impact of transnational youth activism: The case of Razom and EuroMaidan [Conference presentation]. World Convention of Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY
Kovalchuk, S. & Korzh, A. (2017, March). Home-grown social movements as spaces for informal citizenship education of transnational young adults [Conference presentation]. Comparative & International Education Society, Atlanta, Georgia
Korzh, A. (2016, August). Landing in educational inequities: Marginalized youth’s experiences in Ukrainian orphanage schools and beyond [Conference presentation]. World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Beijing, China
Korzh, A. & Kovalchuk, S. (2016, April). EuroMaidan abroad: Civic activism of transnational Ukrainian youth in the United States [Conference presentation]. World Convention of Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY
Education
- EdD, International Educational Development, Columbia University
- MEd, Instructional Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago
- BA with Honors, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Nizhyn State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
