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Social Science Advisory Board Members

Brenda J. Allen
Associate Dean, University of Colorado at Denver
Research Area: organizational communication, diversity, critical pedagogy

Catherine Ashcraft
Senior Research Scientist, NCWIT, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Area:  Education, communication, diversity and technology, culturally relevant and critical pedagogy

Lecia Barker
Research Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Research Area: Communication, Education, IT Workforce Research & Evaluation

Brigid Barron
Assistant Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
Research Area: Technology, Learning, Assessment, Equity

Enobong (Anna) Branch

Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Area: Social Inequality (race, gender, and class), Work and Occupations, Entry and Persistence in IT

Justine Cassell
Professor, Media Technology & Society, School of Communication, Northwestern
Research Area: Communication, Gender & Technology

Sapna Cheryan
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, University of Washington
Research Area: Individual and Group Stereotypes, Women, Minorities, & Computing

Joanne Cohoon
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, & Society, University of Virginia
Research Area: Sociology of Gender, Technology & Education; Evaluation

Margaret Eisenhart
Professor of Education, Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, University of Colorado
Research Area: Educational Anthropology & Research Methodology

Mary Frank Fox
NSF Advance Professor, School of Public Policy
Co-director, Center for Study of Women, Science, and Technology, Georgia Tech
Research Area: Sociology/Gender, Science, & Technology - in organizational contexts

Lisa Frehill

Angela Ginorio
Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington
Research area: Access to and the Experiences of Under-Respresented Groups in Science and Engineering

 

 

 

Sarah Kuhn
Associate Professor, Department of Regional Economic and Social Development and Faculty Associate, Center for Women and Work, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Research Area: Human/Computer Interaction; IT Workforce

Elsa Macias
Director, Research & Development, Center for Urban Education, USC
Research area: Academic Leadership and Organizational Change in Higher Ed, Minority Access to Higher Ed, and Educational Technology

Jane Margolis
Researcher, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Research Area: Social Inequity, Gender, Ethnicity & Education

Rose Marra
Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
Research Area: Online Learning and Learning Technologies

Mia Ong
Project Leader, Center for School Reform, TERC
Research area: Electronic Communities, Social dynamics of Higher Education Physics and Engineering Programs

Eddie Pate
Pate Consulting & Associates, LLC
Expertise Area: Diversity, Accessibility, Cultural competence, Team-building

Gerhard Sonnert (Co-chair)
Sociologist of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University
Research Area: Science & Society

Janice Stockard
Researcher, Author, Anthropologist, Teacher
Research Area: Cultural Anthropology, Gender, Family & Technology

Roli Varma (Co-chair)
Professor, University of New Mexico
Research area: Science and Technology Policy, Women and Minorities in IT Education, Management of Industrial Science, The Tenure System in Engineering

Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell

Researcher, TERC Education Research Collaborative

Research area: Computational Agency, Computational Literacy, Computer-supported Learning Environments (including 3D virtual worlds), and Critical Pedagogy

 

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