Maureen Porter

Maureen Porter
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5709 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7041
EMAIL: mporter@pitt.edu

• Overview
• Publications
• Presentations
• Professional Participation
• Grants and Research
• Services
• Curriculum Vita

Full Time Faculty - Associate Professor

School Affiliations

• Department: Administrative and Policy Studies - Associate Professor
• Program: Social and Comparative Analysis in Education

Education

• Ph.D., Education, Stanford University, 1997
• MA, Anthropology, Stanford University, 1996

Recent Course Instruction

Fall 2008 (2091)

• ADMPS 2098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 2099 - GUIDANCE IN THE MASTER'S DEGREE
• ADMPS 2352 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION
• ADMPS 2359 - GENDER, EDUCATION, & INT'L DVLP
• ADMPS 3097 - SUPERVISED RESEARCH
• ADMPS 3098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 3099 - GUIDANCE IN THE DOCTORAL DEGREE
• EDUC 2109 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Summer 2008 (2087)

• ADMPS 2098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 2354 - SERVICE LEARNING PRACTICUM
• ADMPS 3097 - SUPERVISED RESEARCH
• ADMPS 3098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 3099 - GUIDANCE IN THE DOCTORAL DEGREE

Spring 2008 (2084)

• ADMPS 2098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 2099 - GUIDANCE IN THE MASTER'S DEGREE
• ADMPS 2344 - LEADERSHIP IN SERVICE LEARNING
• ADMPS 2355 - ETHNOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION
• ADMPS 3097 - SUPERVISED RESEARCH
• ADMPS 3098 - DIRECTED STUDY
• ADMPS 3099 - GUIDANCE IN THE DOCTORAL DEGREE

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Current Professional Participation

• Center for Latin American Studiess (CLAS)
  • Participated with three linked tables to profile the LINCS international service-learning program in Peru. We developed three new, targeted promotional sets of flyers, the LINCS students staffed the tables, and several were able to use it as part of their community extension exercise.
• Center for West European Studies/ European Union Center of Excellence
  • Affiliate My co-author, claudia Fahrenwald, was supported by the EUCE to come and do a featured presentation and recption for our TWO co-authored book chapters that came out this year. We very effectively tag-team presented "Going Over to the Dark Side: Ambivalence and Fortitude among Women Leaders" as part of a special presentation for the greter university community. John Weidman, a colleague from APS and Director of the co-sponsoring Institute for International Studies in Education, gave the introduction.
• Global Studies
  • Faculty
• Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE)
  • I attended presentations and also contributed to meetings for the UNESCO Associated Schools Program in fall semester, as led by Clementina Acedo and Rachel Burcin.
• Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center (PEHSC)
  • Keynote speaker I provided materials and consulting that were useful in the Center's hosting of the Latin American Authors' Award and READ conference. We prominently featured the LINCS program and did PR for our department and program.
• Universitaet Augsburg
  • Visiting Scholar and Professor
• University Center for International Studies (UCIS)
  • Western European Area Studies Center for Latin American Studies

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Recent Grants

• See addenda notes about the UCIS Center for Less Commonly Taught Languages Grant for the Veronica Learns to Waka Waka book and CD project with Worldview Press.

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Recent Service

• Non-University Service
  • Fox Chapel Area Schools, Kerr Elementary and the Sharpsburg Family Literacy Center of the Fox Chapel Area School District I worked in collaboration with Kenda Hammer of the SFLC and Dana Ferrari of Kerr to design a scrapbook-based early childhood literacy project. The enclosed proposal outlines the educational merits and aims of the project; this list was designed specifically with the Pennsylvania literacy standards in mind. We worked with one another and with a kindergarten class to brainstorm ideas, prioritize a shoot list, create letters using the kids' bodies, and to shoot pictures that would exemplify the words and concepts about kindergarten that they had chosen for their "ABCs of Kindergarten" book. We consulted with the guidance counselor and others to design a lasting book that will be used in fall as the prompt for the fall sries of kindergarten orientation events. We also intend to publish it and to distribute it to all of the kindergarteners in fall. Look for more under the publications section next year!
• University-level Service
  • IRB’s Psycho-social IRB Advising Committee (Education and social sciences repersenative) This did not meet in fall semester, although I presented myself as available.
  • Founding member of the University Senate's ad hoc committee on gender equity, which was reauthorized by the University Senate. See the University times article at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-DB=ustory&-Format=d.html&-lay=a&storyid=7319&-Find
  • University-Community Relations Committee of the Faculty Senate (member) The very large accomplishment of this committee, a follow-through that has to be credited to the fortitude and focus of Tracy Soska (a clinical faculty member and one of our doctoral students!) is the revision, presentation to the Senate, and acceptance of the guidelines that we prepared on engaged scholarship as part of the faculty tenure review process. Although the final wording of the resolution uses the weak and bland term "communty service," this was a political strategy that helps us to achieve our larger goals of broadening the discourse and actual practice around engaged scholarship on this campus. You can find more at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=7327&-Find
  • Women's Studies (Steering Committee member, now a formalized, offical position that carries more duties and responsibilites as a result of our year-long process of making explicit, debating, and reforming the governance structure of this arts and sciences program area)
  • Provost's Advisory Committee on Women's concerns (member) PACWC committe on FMLA Equity and Policies (committe member in fall semsester) See addenda materials

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