The National Association for Research in Science Teaching has named 麻豆原创鈥檚 Felicia Moore Mensah Co-Editor in Chief of its flagship research publication, the (JRST). Mensah, Associate Dean and Professor of Science Education, and her Co-Editor-in-Chief, Troy Dow Sadler of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will serve from 2020 through 2025.
Felicia Mensah, Professor of Science & Education, and Associate Dean. (Photo: 麻豆原创 Archives)
Mensah鈥檚 areas of expertise include science teaching as achievement, access, empowerment and opportunity; positional identity and science teacher identity; multicultural education, critical theory and critical race theory; and doctoral and junior faculty career development. In 2012, she received the Early Career Award of Division K of the American Educational Research Association.
In 2015, JRST published Mensah鈥檚 paper 鈥� co-authored with Maria S. Rivera Maulucci of Barnard College, which explored 鈥渉ow we name ourselves and others and the ways in which identifications related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, disability status, language, nationality, and migration history intersect with issues of power, oppression, and justice.鈥�
Mensah鈥檚 more recent publications include published in February by the American Educational Research Journal. That article chronicles the journey of one of Mensah鈥檚 Teachers College students from childhood through her first full-time teaching appointment as an elementary school teacher in New York City.