# Faculty Advisors ## expand\_more [### Joe Blatt ](/people/joe-blatt) [ joe\_blatt@gse.harvard.edu ]()Faculty Director, Technology, Innovation and Education, HGSE Senior Lecturer in Education, HGSE Joe Blatt is interested in the effects of media content and technology on development, learning, and civic behavior. His courses span both formal and informal settings. He is renewing the historic relationship between HGSE and Sesame Workshop, as recently... ![Joe Blatt](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/gse-edumedialab/files/screen_shot_2019-06-11_at_3.55.09_pm.png?itok=TyhD5aEa) [### Catherine Snow ](/people/catherine-snow) [catherine\_snow@gse.harvard.edu ]()Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, HGSE Catherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes. Her current research activities include a study of how Boston Public School early... ![Catherine Snow](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/gse-edumedialab/files/screen_shot_2019-06-12_at_8.06.06_am.png?itok=wEZBUsjw) [### Xu Zhao Ed.D. ](/people/xu-zhao) Director of Research in Chinese Youth Mental Health and Well Being Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education University of Calgary Dr. Zhao focuses on understanding the contextual processes (family, school and broader society) that influence the ways school-aged youth construe and relate to others and society.Her research studies, conducted in North America and China ,explores one... ![Dr Xu Zhao](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/gse-edumedialab/files/screen_shot_2019-06-15_at_10.50.25_pm.png?itok=FJxghJpj)