Alumni

Fall 2022

fessler7@msu.edu

Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran

Dissertation: Secondary Mathematics Teacher Interns' Learning Through Teaching: A Case Study

Academic Specialist, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University

Summer 2022

krausea3@msu.edu

Advisor: Vince Melfi

Dissertation: Studying Engagement to Inform Design of Calculus 2 Computational Labs

Academic Teaching Specialist, Mathematics Department, Michigan State University

Summer 2022

vak0004@auburn.edu

Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran

Dissertation: A Multicase Study of Three Graduate Teaching Assistants Participating in the MDISC Teaching Professional Development

Postdoc, Auburn University

Summer 2022

Merve.N.Kursav@dartmouth.edu

Advisor: Corey Drake

Dissertation: Teachers’ Beliefs, Perceptions, Experiences, and Strategies in Teaching and Engaging Multilingual Learners in Mathematics Classrooms

Research Associate, Dartmouth College

Spring 2022

relmore@midmich.edu

Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran

Dissertation: Teaching Presence in a Fully Online Asynchronous Undergraduate Mathematics Course and its Impact on Social and Cognitive Presence

Mathematics Faculty Member, Mid-Michigan College

Spring 2022

twegner@arbor.edu

Advisor: Ralph Putnam

Dissertation Director: Brin Keller

Dissertation: Students' Tool Usage, Justifications, and Reported Confidence When Using Dynamic Geometry Environments

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spring Arbor University, Michigan

Summer 2021

dbower14@utk.edu

Advisor: Corey Drake

Dissertation: Anarchist Mathematics Education: Ethic, Motivation, and Praxis

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Summer 2021

sbyun2@ncsu.edu

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Dissertation: Interactional work of Advanced Placement mathematics teachers: Toward productive and equitable mathematics discussions

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of STEM Education, North Carolina State University, NC Raleigh

Summer 2021

goingtar@msu.edu

Advisor: Kristen Bieda

Dissertation: The Relationship Between Productive Disciplinary Engagement and Middle Grades Students' Construction of Written Justifications

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University

Summer 2021

voogtkj@grace.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: Influence of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Mathematics Experiences on their Attitudes and Beliefs about Mathematics

Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education, Grace College, Winona Lake, IN

Spring 2021

djones@mc3.edu

Co-Advisors: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Sandra Crespo

Dissertation Director: Chezare Warren

Dissertation: A Critical Race Examination of Four Young Black Men's Participation in Community College Developmental/Remedial Mathematics

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA

Fall 2020

cavnerl@ferris.edu

Co-Advisors: Jack Smith and Monica Karunakaran

Dissertation: Tracking and Understanding At-Risk College Students' Self-Efficacy in a Treatment Mathematics Course

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ferris State University

Summer 2020

morisse3@msu.edu

Co-Advisors: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Corey Drake

Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers' and Principals' Responses to the Use of Student Growth Data on Teacher Evaluation Instruments in the State of Michigan

Mathematics Teacher, Morrice Jr/Sr High School

Spring 2020

mosibodu@yorku.ca

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Dissertation:  Embodying Ubuntu, Invoking Sankofa, & Disrupting With Fela: A Co-Exploration of Social Issues and Critical Mathematics Education With Sub-Saharan African Youth

Assistant Professor, York University

Spring 2020

cdubbs@esu.edu

Advisor: Tonya Bartell

Dissertation: Perturbations of the Sensible: An Aesthetic Atlas of Mathematics Education Research

Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University

Fall 2019

stunstal@trinity.edu

Co-Advisors: Tonya Bartell and Vince Melfi

Dissertation: Numeracy Proxies and Practices: Studies in Approximations of the “Real”

Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Skills Center, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Fall 2019

kappenzeller@austin.utexas.edu

Advisor: Corey Drake

Dissertation: Teachers’ Use of Scaffolding During Cognitively Demanding Tasks

Director for Faculty Development, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, The University of Texas at Austin

Summer 2019

younggon.bae@utrgv.edu

Co-Advisors: Brin Keller and Shiv Karunakaran

Dissertation: Dynamic Geometry Task Design for Axiomatic Geometry: Student Engagement with Axiomatic Reasoning

Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley - Brownsville, TX

Summer 2019

kevlawr@msu.edu

Advisor: Brin Keller

Dissertation: Unpacking Teachers' Reflections on Digital Technology Decisions and Use in an Inquiry-Based, Problem-Centered Middle School Mathematics Curriculum

Instructor, Michigan State University

Fall 2018

kohrmand@msu.edu

Advisor: Brin Keller

Dissertation: Learning to Define in Mathematics – The Effects of a Sequence of Tasks on Preservice Teachers' Abilities to Construct High Quality Definitions

Emeritus Mathematics Instructor, Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Summer 2018

Jen.Nimtz@wwu.edu

Co-Advisors: Ralph Putnam and Sandra Crespo

Dissertation: Case Studies of Undergraduate Students' Interactions with an Online Computer Adaptive Instruction Intermediate Algebra Course

Assistant Professor and Director of First Year Mathematics Instruction, Western Washington University

Summer 2018

aer066@shsu.edu

Advisor: Corey Drake

Dissertation: Student Work in Curriculum-based Assessment Tasks: An Exploratory Validity Study of a Mechanism for Assessing SMP3b

Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University

Summer 2018

vrsatyam@vcu.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: Cognitive and Affective Components of Undergraduate Students Learning How to Prove

Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Spring 2018

philhowerj@apsu.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: Investigating High School Mathematics Teachers' Formative Assessment Practices

Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

Summer 2017

jeffrey.c.craig@asu.edu

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Dissertation: Real Fantasies In Mathematics Education: Numeracy, Quantitative Reasoners, Transdisciplinary Wicked Problems

Assistant Teaching Professor, Arizona State University

Summer 2017

NGilbertson@winona.edu

Advisor: Kristen Bieda

Dissertation: Teacher Decision-Making in Collaborative Mathematics Discussions

Associate Professor at Winona State University

Summer 2017

ldguzman@csufresno.edu

Advisor: Amy Parks

Dissertation: Blurring Boundaries within Mathematics Education: Prospective K-8 Teachers Interrogating Intersectional Identities, Narratives and Positionings across Out-of-School Contexts

Assistant Professor of STEM Education, California State University, Fresno

Summer 2017

francesharper@utk.edu

Advisor: Tonya Bartell

Dissertation: Equitable Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Practice: Exploring Students’ Negotiations of Identity and Power

Associate Professor, STEM Education/Math, University of Tennessee

Summer 2017

mussela@uw.edu

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Dissertation: Mathematics Majors at an All-Women's College: Exploring Identity and Context

Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington, Bothell

Eryn Stehr Maher

Summer 2017

estehr@georgiasouthern.edu

Co-Advisors: John P. (Jack) Smith, III and Ralph T. Putnam

Dissertation: Digital Resources and Mathematics: Teachers' Conceptions and Noticing

Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University

Fall 2016

ahu@erblearn.org

Co-Advisors: Vince Melfi, Bob Floden

Dissertation: The Influence of Content and Other Factors on Measures of Teacher Quality: A Comparative Study

Currently Director, Research & Development, at the Educational Records Bureau in New York, after Post-doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University

Summer 2016

cavanna@hartford.edu

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann and Corey Drake

Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers’ Data Use in Practice: Considering Accountability, Action Research, and Agency

Started as Post-Doc Research Associate at the University of Connecticut; now Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, STEM, and Innovation at University of Hartford

Summer 2016

daniel.clark@wku.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: The Common Core of Understanding Amongst the Michigan Education Community Regarding the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University

Summer 2016

aedwards@msu.edu

Advisor: Vince Melfi

Dissertation: Quantitative Literacy in General Education Science Courses at a Community College: Student and Instructor Reports

Academic Specialist in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University

Summer 2016

gonulatesf1@nku.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: Mathematics Teachers’ Collaboration Mediated by a Problem-Based Curriculum

Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, College of Education

Summer 2016

kimeun23@msu.edu

Advisor: Ralph Putnam

Dissertation: Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Volume and Its Measurement in Everyday and School Contexts

Associate Researcher in the Center for Accessible Teaching, Learning & Assessment Systems (ATLAS) at the University of Kansas

Summer 2015

jhe@augusta.edu

Advisor: Sharon Senk

Dissertation: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Mathematical Definitions

Assistant Professor, Augusta University, Georgia

Spring 2015

jwernet@lansingchristianschool.org

Advisor: Kristen Bieda

Dissertation: What's the Story with Story Problems? Exploring the Relationship between Contextual Mathematics Tasks, Student Engagement, and Motivation to Learn Mathematics in Miple School

Director of Learning and Secondary Mathematics Teacher at Lansing Christian School, and Teaching for Transformation School Designer with the Center for the Advancement of Christian Education (CACE)

Summer 2014

brak@bu.edu

Advisor: Sandra Crespo; Dissertation Co-Directed with Ralph Putnam

Dissertation: Preservice Teachers' Uses of the Internet to Support Their Learning of Mathematics: The Case of The Pythagorean Theorem

Senior Lecturer and Program Director for Mathematics Education at Boston University, after serving 2 years as Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Summer 2013

lepakj@spu.edu

Advisor: Kristen Bieda

Dissertation: Supporting Low-Tracked Algebra Students’ Written Arguments

Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University, Department of Mathematics

Spring 2013

cranfiel@msu.edu

Advisor: Sharon Senk; Dissertation Co-Directed with Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Dissertation: How are the Mathematical Identities of Low Achieving South African Eleventh Graders Related to Their Ability to Solve Mathematical Tasks?

National Mathematics Manager at National Education Collaboration Trust, South Africa

Summer 2012

dietiker@bu.edu

Advisor: Glenda Lappan; Dissertation Co-Directed with Nathalie Sinclair

Dissertation: The Mathematics Textbook as a Story: A Novel Approach to the Interrogation of Mathematics Curriculum

Associate Professor at Boston University, School of Education

Summer 2012

Advisor: Sharon Senk

Dissertation: College Students’ Achievement and Understanding of Experimental and Theoretical Probability: The Role of Tasks

Lecturer at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, Department of Education

Summer 2012

kcroger@bgsu.edu

Advisor: Michael Steele

Dissertation: The Proof is in the Practice? Graduate Teaching Assistants and Future Teachers

Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Summer 2012

ottensa@missouri.edu

Advisor: Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

Dissertation: Participation and Cognitive Demand: Linking the Enacted Curriculum and Student Learning in Middle School Algebra

Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, College of Education

Summer 2012

horvath-a@mssu.edu

Advisor: Glenda Lappan

Dissertation: The Treatment of Composition in Secondary and Early Collegiate Mathematics Curricula

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University, School of Engineering Education

Currently is an Assistant Professor at Missouri Southern State University

Amanda (Milewski) Brown

Spring 2012

amilewsk@umich.edu

Advisor: Raven McCrory

Dissertation: Exploring Teachers' Practices of Responding

Assistant Research Scientist at University of Michigan School of Education

Fall 2011

Advisor: Glenda Lappan

Dissertation: The Van Hiele Theory Through Discursive Lens: Prospective Teacher's Geometric Discourses

Associate Professor at Boise State University, Department of Mathematics

Fall 2011

lmales2@unl.edu

Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: Curriculum for Professional Development: An Examination of Teachers' Opportunities to Learn from Middle School Mathematics Curriculum Materials

Associate Professor at University of Nebraska – Lincoln, College of Education and Human Science

Summer 2011

glarnell@uic.edu

Advisor: Glenda Lappan

Dissertation Advisor: Jack Smith

Dissertation: More Than Just Skill: Mathematics Identities, Socialization, and Remediation among African American Undergraduates

Associate Professor at University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education

Spring 2011

jungeun@udel.edu

Advisor: Sharon Senk

Dissertation: Calculus Instructors' and Students' Discourse on the Derivative

Associate Professor at University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Summer 2010

bgucler@umassd.edu

Advisor: Raven McCrory

Dissertation: Development of Discourse on Limits:  Connecting History and Classroom Practice Through A Communicational Approach to Learning

Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, STEM Education Department