Educational Background

Ed.D. Literacy, University of Cincinnati, 2004
    Dissertation: Living Poverty as a Girl: Identity and Critical Literacy Between Social Classes

MA Elementary Education, Math Concentration, Miami University, 2001
    Project: A Descriptive Study of the Influence of Connection-Making Strategies on the Quality of Mathematical Discussions

Scholarly Interests
As a researcher of young children and elementary classrooms, I am interested in critical perspectives on language, literacies, and identities including the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect with language, literacy, and school engagements. These interests have led to my commitment to ethnographic methods of studying classroom and community practice and activist research with and for working-class children and families.  In addition to this, I am devoted to the ongoing development and rethinking of critical and feminist pedagogies in kindergarten through graduate and post-graduate classrooms. This focus on pedagogy constantly pushes me to study my teaching in university and professional development settings as well as work collaboratively with elementary school teachers in teacher-research projects.