Students

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 Jennifer D. Adams

· Dissertation Title: "Using museum resources to enrich urban science education teacher agency, identity transformation, and Creolized sciences”  2006

· Advisor: Tobin

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor of science education, Department of Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Gillian Bayne

· Dissertation Title: "Identity, culture and shared experiences: the power of cogenerative dialogues in urban science classrooms”  2007 

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor of science education,  Lehman College, CUNY

Regina A. Bernard

· Dissertation Title: "Nuyorganics: understanding organic intellectualism through Nuyorican poetry”  2006 

· Advisor:  Kincheloe

Janice Bloom

· Dissertation Title: "Rights of passage: social class and the transition to college”  2006

· Advisor:  Fine

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor of education studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts

Joanne Carris

  • Dissertation Title: "Understanding Curriculum as Political Text: Designing Empowering Pedagogy for Non-Reading Adolescents." 2008

·        Advisor:  Anderson

Lori Chajet

· Dissertation Title: "But is what we give them enough?": exploring urban small school graduates’ journeys through college”  2006

· Advisor:  Fine

· Job Placement:  Coordinator of research and training and an instructor of education studies, the Institute for Urban Education, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts

Rosalina Diaz

· Dissertation Title: "Latinas in single-sex schools:  constructing a transnational feminist identity”  2006 

· Advisor:  Anderson

· Job Placement:  tenure-track associate professor of educational foundations, Department of Liberal Arts and Education, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Michael Dumas

· Dissertation Title: "Sitting next to white children: school desegregation in the black educational imagination”  2007

· Advisor:  Anyon

· Job Placement:  assistant professor of social and multicultural foundations, College of Education, California State University—Long Beach

Mark Dunetz

· Dissertation Title: "The Comprehensive High School in Transition: A Study of Small Learning Community Reform”  2009 

·Advisor:  Michelli

· Job Placement: Principal, Academy for Careers in Television and Film

Christopher Emdin

· Dissertation Title: " Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms: cogenerative dialogues, coteaching, and cosmopolitanism”  2007 

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement:  assistant professor of science education in the Department of Science, Mathematics, and Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University

Benjamin Enoma

·        Dissertation Title: "Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Work of James Bryant Conant." 2008

·        Advisor:  Michelli

Laura Gellert

·        Dissertation Title: " New Elementary School Teachers and Mathematics: An Investigation Through Participation in a Community Practice." 2008

·        Advisor:  Michelli

· Job Placement:  Assistant Professor of Elementary Mathematics Methods/ Tenure Track Department of Childhood

Lidia Gonzalez

·        Dissertation Title: "Mathematics Teachers as Agents of Change: Exploring Teacher Identity and Social Justice through a Community of Practice" 2008

·        Advisor:  Laurel Cooley

· Job Placement: Assistant Professor/ Tenure Track, Department of Mathematics and Computer Studies, York Studies

Preeti Gupta

· Dissertation Title: "Theorizing the Identity Development in Pre-Service Teachers Who are Explainers in a Science Center”  2009 

·Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement: Senior Vice President for Education and Family Programs at the New York Hall of Science

Chris Hale

  • Dissertation Title: "How the Other Half Fails (In School): Upper Class Parents' Experiences Parenting Children with Learning Differences" 2008

·    Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement: Assistant Professor/ Tenure Track, Special Education, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

Kecia Hayes

· Dissertation Title: " Constructing a prison to school pipeline: an examination of the educational experiences of incarcerated youth”  2006

· Advisor:  Kincheloe

· Job Placement:  tenure track/ assistant professor of educational leadership,Education Department at Monclair University

Judith Hill

·        Dissertation Title: "Aesthetic Education: Philosophy and Teaching Artist Practice at Lincoln Center Institute." 2008

·        Advisor:  Anderson

·        Job Placement: Director of Education, Cantata Singers

Pamela A. Joyce

· Dissertation Title: "Beyond the silence: finding a voice”  2006 

· Advisor:  Kincheloe

· Job Placement:  is a reading specialist, Montclair High School, NJ

Lynda Kennedy

·        Dissertation Title: "Creating Collaboation to Support Teacher Growth: Mapping to Partnership Process”  2009

·        Advisor: Anderson

Tricia Kress

· Dissertation Title: "Through the revolving door: re-examining technology integration and teacher identity in urban schools vis-à-vis the agency/structure dialectic”  2006 

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor of leadership in urban schools, Department of Leadership in Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Patricia Kreuger

· Dissertation Title: "Navigating the Gaze: A Study of Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces in Urban Schools - An Examination of Safety in New York City Public Schools ”  2009

· Advisor:  Michelli

· Job Placement:  Adjunct Instructor, Long Island University, Brooklyn

Ed Lehner

· Dissertation Title: "Cogenerative dialogues and coteaching as fields for transforming urban teaching and learning”  2007 

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor for special education in the Education Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Darla Linville

·        Dissertation Title: "Resisting Regulation: Discourses about Sexuality and Gender in Schools" 2009

·        Advisor:  Anyon

·        Job Placement Faculty Fellow, Education Program at Colby College

Jim Martinez

·        Dissertation Title: "A Performatory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology" 2009

·        Advisor:  Tobin

Amy Moran

· Dissertation Title: "Transitions: Urban Students in Suburban Schools and the Phenomenon of Change ”  2009

· Advisor:  Anyon

· Job Placement:  Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Teaneck Public School

Donal Mulcahy

· Dissertation Title: "Implications of Current Education Reform Policy for Democratic Education”  2007 

· Advisor:  Anderson

· Job Placement:  Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Wingate University

Kathleen Nolan

· Dissertation Title: "Disciplining urban youth: an ethnographic study of a Bronx high school”  2007 

· Advisor:  Anyon

· Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Education, Mercy College, NY

Wesley Pitts

·        Dissertation Title: " Being, becoming, and belonging : improving science fluency during laboratory activities in urban education”  2007 

·        Advisor:  Tobin

·        Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor of science education, and Coordinator, Graduate and TOPS Program in Science Education, Lehman College, CUNY

Rebecca Rufo Tepper

·        Dissertation Title: " Playing on Two Courts: Factors that Facilitate and Constrain Teacher Learning in a Lesson Study Group" 2009

·        Advisor: Michelli

·        Job PlacementLead Curriculum Designer at the Institute of Play

Jessica Ruglis

·        Dissertation Title: "Embodying and Weathering A Miseducation”  2009 

·        Advisor:  Michelli

·        Job Placement:  Kellog Health Scholar Post-Doctoral Fellow, John Hopkins University, School of Public Health

Rupam Saran

·        Dissertation Title: "Asian Indian students: achievement, schooling, and positive stereotyping”  2006 

·        Advisor:  Tobin

·        Job Placement:  tenure-track assistant professor in math education, Department of Childhood Education, Curriculum, and Instruction, Manhattanville College

Emily Schnee

·        Dissertation Title: "Teetering at the fulcrum: possibilities and constraints in a college worker education program”  2007 

·        Advisor:  Perl

·        Job Placement:  postdoctoral position in MetroMath, Rutgers University

Ashraf Shady

· Dissertation Title: "Immigration and Cultural as Factors Mediating the Teaching and Learning of Urban Science”  2008

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement:  Assistant Professor/ Tenure track, Science Education, Queens College (CUNY)

Christina Siry

·        Dissertation Title: "Fostering Solidarity and Transforming Identities: A Collaborative Approach to Elementary Science Teacher ”  2009 

·        Advisor:  Tobin

·        Job PlacementPost-doctoral Researcher at University of Luxembourg

Eve Jessica Tuck

·        Dissertation Title: "Gateways & Get-aways: Urban Youth, School Push-out and the GED." 2008

·        Advisor:  Fine

·        Job Placement Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations/Tenure, Educational Studies Department, School of Education, New Paltz

Joelle Tutella

·        Dissertation Title: "Becoming American: A Case Study of Lower East Side Tenement Museum." 2008

·        Advisor:  Semel

·        Job Placement Director of Teacher Education of the Department of Urban Studies at Rutgers / Newark

Jose Vazquez

·        Dissertation Title: "Evolution of Student Evaluations of College Faculty: Implications and Consequences." 2008

·        AdvisorCahn

·        Job Placement Teacher of Science in the General Studies Program at NYU

Jennifer Weiss

· Dissertation Title: "Under the Radar: Surveillance and Youth Resistance”  2008

· Advisor: Anyon

 

Eydie Wilson

· Dissertation Title: "Alternately Certified Teacher and Technology: Agency Structure Dialectic - Integration of Technologically ”  2009 

· Advisor:  Tobin

· Job Placement: DOE as district math coach

Mayida Zaal

· Dissertation Title: "Second Generation Immigrant Youth: Access to Resources, Social Capital Formation, and the Role of the Community”  2009

· Advisor:  Michelli

· Job Placement:  Assistant Professor, Montclair State University

 

 

 

 

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