Alumni

Fall 2022
Advisor: Robert Floden
Dissertation: Feedback that matters: Mathematics teacher educators’ feedback of student
teachers’ lesson plans

Fall 2022
Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: Secondary Mathematics Teacher Interns' Learning Through Teaching: A Case Study
Mathematics Instructor, United States Military Academy Preparatory School

Summer 2022
Advisor: Vince Melfi
Dissertation: Studying Engagement to Inform Design of Calculus 2 Computational Labs
Academic Teaching Specialist, Michigan State University

Summer 2022
Advisor: Shiv Karunakaran
Dissertation: A Multicase Study of Three Graduate Teaching Assistants Participating in the MDISC Teaching Professional Development
Postdoc, Auburn University

Summer 2022
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
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
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
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Anarchist Mathematics Education: Ethic, Motivation, and Praxis
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Summer 2021
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
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
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
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
Co-Advisors: Jack Smith and Monica Karunakaran
Dissertation: Tracking and Understanding At-Risk College Students' Self-Efficacy in a Treatment Mathematics Course
Adjunct Instructor of Mathematics, Ferris State University

Summer 2020
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
Instructor, Great Lakes Learning Academy

Spring 2020
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

Spring 2020
Advisor: Tonya Bartell
Dissertation: Perturbations of the Sensible: An Aesthetic Atlas of Mathematics Education Research

Fall 2019
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
Advisor: Corey Drake
Dissertation: Teachers’ Use of Scaffolding During Cognitively Demanding Tasks
Director of Quantitative Reasoning, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, TX

Summer 2019
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
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