Maryann Dickar
Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning
Phone: 998-5194
Email: maryann.dickar@nyu.edu
Maryann Dickar, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, earned her doctorate in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, an MA in US History from SUNY Binghamton, and her BA at Vassar College. She researches and publishes about urban youth culture, local identity, and school reform. She also writes on the role of race in the work of teachers and on the relationship of student culture to school culture. Her forthcoming book, Corridor Cultures: Mapping Resistance in an Urban School, developes a new paradigm for understanding student resistance and its relationship to school reform. Currently, she is developing programs in local high schools that use video games to deepen student engagement with content. She grew up in New York City and attended and taught in its public schools.
Degrees Held
- M.A.
SUNY Binghamton
- Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
- B.A.
Vassar College
Awards
- Zirin Research Award-NYU
- Dissertation Fellowship
- Doctoral Fellowship
Research Interests
Race, social class, and ethnicity Social Inequality and Education Urban Education Secondary Education Teacher development
Publications
- Corridor Cultures: Mapping Resistance in an Urban School, (In Press) New York University Press.
- “Hearing the Silenced Dialogue: An examination of teacher race on their experiences,” Race, Ethnicity and Education. (In press) 11(2) July 2008.
- “Reading Place: Learning from the Savage Inequalities at Erasmus Hall” (2006) Educational Studies, 40 (1), 23-38.