STAFF PROFILES
Megan Deiger is a research specialist 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.
mdeiger@uic.edu
312-996-1335
Carol Fendt is a senior researcher and co-director of the PRAIRIE Group, and a doctoral student in educational policy studies at the UIC College of Education. Her research focuses on sense-making and implementation of school reform. She received her M.A. in educational leadership from Dominican University and her B.S. in English and secondary education from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She has been a teacher and principal in the schools of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
crfendt@hotmail.com
312-413-9221
Rodney Harris is a research specialist at the PRAIRIE Group. He received his Ph.D. in Education/Curriculum Design from UIC in 2002. Since 1996 he has worked on the Chicago Annenberg Research Project and Fry High School Initiative education evaluation projects. His interests include the connection between teaching and students’ out-of-school experiences, and how teachers learn about those experiences.
Rharri5@uic.edu
312-996-0837
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
Mariam Mazboudi has been a researcher at the PRAIRIE Group since 2004, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the UIC College of Education. She has been doing research at PRAIRIE Group since 2004. Mariam has an M.A. in Linguistics with a TEFL/TESL certification from Northeastern Illinois University, and a B.A. in Psychology, with a minor in French and Chemistry, from UIC. Since 1996, she has taught English as a Second Language to students at Loyola University Chicago, Business English in Austria, and Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages for Loyola University Chicago's School of Education. She continues teaching ESL at several Chicagoland community colleges.
mmazbo2@uic.edu
312-996-0837
Esther Mosak is a research specialist at the PRAIRIE Group. She has been a bilingual teacher in Chicago Public Schools and an administrator in higher education; and as a consultant has developed curriculum materials and conducted program evaluations. She has extensive experience as a writer, editor, and translator in the U.S. and Latin America. She holds two M.Ed. degrees: in Educational Policy and Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and in Instructional Leadership from UIC.
emosak@uic.edu
312-996-1335
Keith M. Sturges is a research specialist with the PRAIRIE Group. He is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Keith has conducted ethnographic, mixed method and applied research and evaluation on topics that include planned educational change, identity production, the cultural history of educational evaluation, and the identification of barriers to high quality educational programming along the lines of social position. He received his Master of Applied Anthropology and his BA in Anthropology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Keith has published and presented on processes leading to the overrepresentation of minority students in special education, deregulation and parent involvement in the context of planned school change, and the discourse of school reform.
keithmsturges@yahoo.com
312-996-1335
Stacy Wenzel has been lead external evaluator of the Chicago Math and Science Initiative since September 2002. She 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
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