Rita Ewaz

Rita’s research focuses on emotional regulation, resilience, and psychosocial outcomes among refugee and immigrant children and families. She is particularly interested in early childhood mental health, maternal–child attachment, and school-based interventions that are trauma-informed and culturally sensitive. Using mixed-methods approaches, her work brings together developmental science, education, and community health to examine how migration experiences and cultural values shape coping strategies and to inform programs that support newcomer communities in schools and family settings.

Curriculum Vitae

(In-review) Ewaz, R. M., and Phuong, A.E., (2025). Resilience and Socioeconomic Status in Higher Education. Contemporary Educational Psychology.

(R&R)Ewaz, R. M., Phuong, A.E.,(2025). Transforming Student Learning in Statistics: Examining the Positive Impact of Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEP) Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal

Bintliff, A. V., Levine, R. S., Peninah, B., Namanda, Z., Ewaz, R. M., Cheung, W. W., ... Love, J.(2024).Trauma-Informed SEL with Refugee Youth in Uganda via an International Research-Practice Partnership: Lessons Learned from The Wellbeing Club. Journal of Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 100041.

Ewaz, Rita M. "A Thematic Analysis of the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Student Academic Resilience in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Order No. 30489416 Tufts University, 2023. United States, Massachusetts: ProQuest. Web. 7 Sep. 2023.

(In-preparation) Ewaz, R; Levine, R. “How Childhood Socio-Economic Status Impacts
Academic Trajectories: College Students’ Perspectives.” University of California, San
Diego, 2023. United States --

Undergraduate Research Assistant- Adolescent Well-Being Lab
PI: Dr. Amy Bintliff, Ph.D.

McNair Scholar
PI: Dr. Amy Bintliff, Ph.D. and Rebecca Levine, LICSW