STAFF PROFILES
Carol R. Fendt is a senior researcher and co-director of the PRAIRIE Group. She received her PhD from UIC (2010) in Educational Policy Studies. Fendt has conducted large scale qualitative research since 2000 focusing on the implementation of reforms in large urban settings. Her dissertation on teacher sensemaking and the implementation of curricular reform highlights one of these projects. In recent years, Fendt has provided technical support to the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria as they have developed a comprehensive partnership to improve education and health care in the Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria.
crfendt@hotmail.com
312-413-9221
Janise Hurtig is a senior researcher and co-director of the PRAIRIE Group, and codirector of the Community Writing and Research Project (CWRP). She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan (1996). She has conducted ethnographic, applied, and participatory research and evaluation in the areas of formal and informal education; gender and feminism; and community development and social change in Venezuela, Oregon, and Chicago. Janise has written about schooling, adult education, literacy, partriarchy, transnationalism and social change in Latin American and the Uurban United States. She is co-editor of Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America (Palgrave 2002); author of Coming of Age in Times of Crisis: Youth, Schooling, and Patriarchy in a Venezuelan Town (Palgrave 2008); and co-editor of the community magazine Real Conditions.
Jhurtig@uic.edu
312-413-3667
Affiliates
Stacy Wenzel is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Center for Science and Math Education, Loyola University, and faculty affiliate with the PRAIRIE Group. From 2003-2008, Dr. Wenzel was a senior research and co-director of the PRAIRIE Group.
swenzel@luc.edu
773-508-7330
Megan Deiger is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Center for Science and Math Education, Loyola University, and faculty affiliate with the PRAIRIE Group. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 2005. She has worked as an educational researcher and policy analyst with the Teachers' Academy for Mathematics and Science, and with the Chicago Public Schools Office of Mathematics and Science. She has published in the field of psychology and has presented at various education and evaluation conferences.
773-508-7330
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