Dr. Helen Hyun is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education. She received her master’s degree and doctorate in education policy from Harvard University. She has taught classes at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral level at SFSU. She is also a visiting professor at UC Berkeley where she teaches in the Joint Doctoral Program and advises doctoral students starting their dissertation research. Dr. Hyun’s teaching and research interests include higher education policy, mixed methods research, and equity issues in education. She is currently co-director of SFSU M-RISP, an NIMH-funded program intended to increase the number of minority researchers at SFSU working on mental health-related research in underserved communities. In 2008, Dr. Hyun was selected to co-author one of the leading research methods textbooks in the country, and in 2007, published a book chapter on affirmative action in higher education commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard.
Dr. Hyun was raised in San Francisco’s fog belt, and now resides happily in the sun-filled East Bay with her husband and two young daughters.
