About SSEA
SSEA Leadership
SSEA Appointed Committees:
Membership Committee
Dalal
Katsiaficas (Chair), UCLA
Dalal Katsiaficas is a doctoral candidate in the Human Development and
Psychology program in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
at UCLA. Prior to coming to UCLA in 2012, Dalal completed her B.S. and began her
doctoral studies in the department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt’s
School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Currently, Dalal is a
research associate at the Institute for Immigration, Globalization & Education
at UCLA.
Her research interests broadly include developmental and contextual perspectives
on acculturation and adaption primarily for immigrant-origin students. Her
dissertation focuses on the ways in which immigrant-origin students in community
colleges experience emerging adulthood, particularly focusing on the multiple
competing responsibilities in immigrant-origin emerging adults’ lives.
For more information about Dalal’s research please visit
www.dalalkat.com.