I am a cognitive development psychologist, interested in educational applications and mathematical learning. My background and research dovetail with my teaching interests and experience. Please follow the links above to learn more about my research and teaching. Download my CV here (September 2016) Academic Positions Educational Background

Academic Positions
Wesleyan University

• Visiting Scholar, Psychology
• Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Psychology
• Instructor, Quantitative Analysis Center

University of Wisconsin – Madison

• Research Associate, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
  • National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction
  • Center for Education and Work
• Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology
• Lecturer, Department of Psychology
• Postdoctoral Fellow on IES Postdoctoral Training Grant: Mathematics Thinking, Teaching, and Learning
  • National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction
  • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning In and Out of Mathematics

Educational Background

Rutgers University

• Ph.D., Psychology (Cognitive), 2010
• Dissertation: Adults’ Understanding of Graphs of Interacting Variables
• Master’s Thesis: Young Children’s Graph Interpretation: A Context for Arithmetic
• Cognitive Science Certificate

Carleton College

• B.A., Psychology, 2002, magna cum laude
• Senior Thesis: Counterfactual Deductive Reasoning: Enhanced Instruction Sets, Distinction