Caroline Heller teaches in the Ph.D. in educational studies programs in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University. She brings her background as an urban educator, qualitative researcher of out-of-school literacy settings, writer for the Teaching Tolerance Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and archival researcher for her recent study of central Europe before the war, to her research courses at Lesley. She is currently involved in a study of the support systems of prominent women scientists. Caroline is particularly interested in the intersection between qualitative research and journalism, and in helping qualitative researchers write well about their areas of study. Caroline’s memoir, Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts, was published by Dial Press, Penguin Random House in 2015. It looks at Central Europe before, during, and after World War II through the lens of her own family, particularly her father, Paul, who was imprisoned in Buchenwald for six years. The memoir is based on historical research, letters, interviews, and extensive travel. The book was reviewed favorably in The New York Times Book Review.
Portrait by Eileen Wynne Ball
