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Faculty Profile

Shushan Vardanyan

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Teacher Education
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
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320 Guyton Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-7622
svardany@olemiss.edu
Joined UM: August 18, 2022

Areas of Expertise

  • EDUCATION
  • EDUCATION, MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
  • EDUCATION, STUDENT TEACHING

Brief Bio

Dr. Shushan Vardanyan is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education (ECE) who obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2019. Her primary areas of interest revolve around the development of children's play, the impact of culture on children's development, Forest Schools education, and the application of Piagetian perspectives in the education of young children. Dr. Vardanyan's fascination with culture stems from both her professional and personal experiences working with diverse cultural backgrounds. She has accumulated 12 years of working with young children in Dubai, and in America where she taught pre-k, 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade classrooms. Additionally, her formative years in Armenia, a former Soviet country, where she attended kindergarten, sparked her interest in nature education. Her multicultural outlook in education significantly influences her teaching of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Mississippi.

Degrees

BA
Linguistics
Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (2002)
MA
Education
Murdoch University (2013)
PhD
Early Childhood
University of Alabama at Birmingham (2019)