Meredith Rowe is the Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She leads a research program on understanding how variations in children’s early communicative environments contribute to early language and cognitive development. Her recent work applies this knowledge to intervention strategies for parents and to professional development for preschool teachers.  

Dr. Rowe received her doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2003 and then pursued postdoctoral fellowships in the Psychology and Sociology departments at the University of Chicago for several years. In 2009, she was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, and she joined the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as an Associate Professor in 2014 and was promoted to Professor in 2018.

Dr. Rowe’s dissertation was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Her research has also been funded by grants from the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other private foundations. Her work is published widely in top journals in education and psychology, including Science, Child Development, Developmental Science, and Developmental Psychology.