Dr. M. Diane Clark earned her Ph.D. from the University of North
Carolina—Greensboro where she investigated visual memory systems of
deaf individuals. Since that time she has been involved in research
in several additional areas including dating and rape scripts,
prevention of risky behaviors in girls, and women’s leadership.
Currently, Dr. Clark is working with Dr. Thomas Allen, the Dean of
the Graduate School and Professional Studies and a group of
national/international researchers on a proposal to NSF for a
Science of Learning Center on Visual Learning and Visual Languages
(VL2). The VL2 team involves researchers from various backgrounds
in order to provide cutting edge views of the biological, cognitive,
social, and educational aspects of how to maximize learning and
literacy given a group of individuals who rely on visual learning
and/or visual languages. At this time, the proposal has been
selected for a site visit.
After completing her degree she has had the opportunity to
participate in two post doctorate fellowships. One shortly after
completing her degree in 1985, in the Psychology Department at
Gallaudet University and a later one in the Prevention Research
Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She has taught
at several colleges and universities including Mount Saint Mary’s
College and Shippensburg University. While at Shippensburg she was
the founding director of their Women’s Studies Minor.
Dr. Clark believes in giving back to her community and has been
active in many community activities including Downtown Organizations
Investing Together, the Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Borough
Council in Shippensburg Pennsylvania.
Currently, Dr. Clark is a professor teaching Educational Psychology
and statistical methods. She welcomes graduate students who are
interested in women’s issues to contact her.
Click here to view a list of Dr. Clark's recent publications.
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Dr.
Barbara Gerner
de Garcia, Associate Professor, teaches Multicultural Foundations of
Education, as well as courses in research and technology.
Her experience in
multicultural issues includes 17 years as a teacher of the deaf in
the Boston Public schools, where she implemented and taught in a
trilingual program for Hispanic deaf children. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil during Fall,
1999. Her background includes publications and research on
multicultural issues, as well as numerous presentations and
workshops, and extensive involvement in local and national
organizations dealing with education. She holds degrees
from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Boston University.
Dr. Gerner de
García is the co-PI on a 4 year OSEP grant( 2004-2008) Involvement,
Caring, Affirmation, Respect, and Empowerment of parents—ICARE
Schools Project awarded to the Education Development Center, Newton,
MA. The overall purpose of the proposed project is to design and
implement an exploratory study that will identify, document, and
disseminate information about middle-grades schools that involve
parents meaningfully in the development and review of individual
education plans (IEPs).
Click here to see
a list of Dr. Gerner de Garcia's publications.
Dr.
Cynthia King has worked in the field of deafness for 24 years. She
has been a high school teacher, interpreter, college instructor and
researcher. Currently, Dr.King is Executive
Director of Academic Technology at
Gallaudet University.
She
is the editor of the only reading series developed for deaf children
and has written a textbook–plus many articles–on reading,
deafness, and technology. Dr. King has been conducting
research on computer-based media and captioning since the early
1980's.
Click here to see
a list of Dr. King's publications.
Thomas
N.
Kluwin
began his professional career in 1969 teaching reading to
functionally illiterate minority group high school students in
an urban school system. Dr. Kluwin has his doctorate in
Education from Stanford University.
Dr. Kluwin has
been involved in funded research in education since 1974 and
in the area of deafness since 1977. In the area of deafness,
Dr. Kluwin has a particular interest in public school programs
which serve deaf populations.
He is the author /
editor of several books and numerous articles on the education of
the deaf. Dr. Kluwin's work is recognized in the syllabi of
universities in roughly a dozen countries and at least six languages
besides English.
His current work is in
the area of family learning in informal settings such as museums.
He is currently working on a research program as well as a website
to help teachers plan field trips to living history sites which are
more responsive to the demands of NCLB.
Click here to see
a list of Dr. Kluwin's
publications.
Donna
M. Mertens is a professor in the Department of Educational
Foundations and Research. She teaches research methods,
program evaluation, and educational psychology to deaf and hearing
students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
She is past
President (1998) and a current board member of the American
Evaluation Association. She is the co-editor of Research and
Inequality (with Carole Truman and Beth Humphries as co-editors),
2000, Taylor and Francis, and an author of a number of books
Parents and their Deaf Children: The Early Years, (coauthored with
Kathryn Meadow Orlans, & Marilyn Sass-Lehrer), Gallaudet
University Press, 2003, Research Methods in Special Education, (with
John McLaughlin as co-author), Corwin, 2004, and Research and
Evaluation in
Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with
Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods, Sage. 2005,
as well as journal articles published in The American Journal of
Evaluation, American Annals of the Deaf, and Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis.
Click here to see
a list of Dr. Mertens' publications.
Click here to view Dr.
Mertens' video introduction.
Dr. Amy Wilson, Associate
Professor, teaches International Development with People with
Disabilities in Developing Countries, Introduction to International
Development, as well
as research to deaf and hearing students at the graduate
level. Dr. Wilson began her teaching career in 1979, teaching the
sciences to deaf and hard of hearing students in a mainstreamed
public high school in suburban Chicago. After 12 years, she then
spent several years as a volunteer with the Mennonite Central
Committee in northeast Brazil where she did teacher training and
community development work with Deaf communities in rural areas.
Inspired by her
work in Brazil, she returned to the U.S. where she earned her Ph.D.
at Gallaudet University’s Department of Education (2001),
focusing on curriculum development with an added specialization in
International Development from coursework completed at American
University. In the area of deafness, Dr. Wilson is interested in
researching how to empower deaf people in developing countries in
Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and South America.
Click here to see
a list of Dr. Wilson's publications.
