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
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
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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