Maureen Porter
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5709 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7041
EMAIL:
mporter@pitt.eduFull 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
Spring 2010 (2104)
Fall 2009 (2101)
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Recent Presentations
- Best of Pennsylvania: Podcasting & Skype: New Ways to Globally Connect Your Classroom
Northeast Conference on the teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). New York, NY. This was a technologically and chronologically updated version of our podcasting presentation and the poster table display that we presented at PSMLA. We were selected as one of the top THREE presentations of the over 200 presenters at the Northeast Conference on the teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)!
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Current Professional Participation
- Center for Latin American Studiess (CLAS)
- I was the discussant for the panel "Peruvian Development:The History of NGOs, Formation of the Organic Intellectual and Sustainability" at the Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference held in Pittsburgh, PA. The panel was organized by my doctoral student, LINC alumni, and CLAS Policy Fellowship holder, Chad Dorn. The panel featured five of the LINCS alumni.
- Participated in the annual Latin American Studies Festival weekend celebration and with tables featuring the multi-media documentation (video and scrapbooks)from 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
- Global Studies
- Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE)
- Universitaet Augsburg
- Visiting Scholar and Professor. Collaborated with staff and faculty of the Gender Research Center on ongoing joint and parallel initiatives on women's leadership and gender equity in higher education.
- University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR)
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Recent Consulting
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Recent Grants
- University Center for International Studies Hewlett Faculty Course Development Award. I received this competitive financial award to acquire materials and to develop the new course version of Gender, Education, and Development (ADMPS 2359).
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Recent Service
- Non-University Service
- William Loeffler of the Pittsburgh Tirbune Review contacted me through the university's faculty expertise database. My scholarship and expertise on coming of age ceremonies and gender was highlighted in the interview that I gave. The resulting article was the feature cover story in the July 13, 2008 Arts section, entitled “Different cultures have different rites of passage.” (More Information...) [www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_576961.html]
- University-level Service
- IRB’s Psycho-social IRB Advising Committee (Education and social sciences representative) Although this group has not been active I have presented myself as available. I also attended the IRB session hosted at the School of Education for education- related concerns to take back to the Psychosocial University body.
- Provost's Advisory Committee on Women's concerns (member)Vice Provost Patty Beeson asked me to stay on an extra year and chair the benchmarking/strategic planning subcommittee of PACWC. This is the major working group of that body. We are privileged with confidential data and charged with formulating and presenting the new ten-year strategic plan for gender equity for the University of Pittsburgh.
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