About
Maisie Gholson is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan and affiliate of the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context. She is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in STEM Education. Dr. Gholson received her PhD in curriculum and instruction, as well as her MA in educational studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her BS in electrical engineering from Duke University.
Current Work
Maisie Gholson's current research projects include an ethnographic study of a social network of third-grade Black girls in an urban, mathematics classroom, as well as a study of the pedagogical practices of the Algebra Project (developed by Bob Moses) that support Black children's mathematics identity development.