Professor of Education
Queens Campus:
Sullivan Hall, Room 426
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-2580
Manhattan Campus:
101 Murray Street, Suite 422
New York, NY 10007
(212) 277-5122
maslakm@stjohns.edu
Mary Ann Maslak is a professor of
education at St. John’s University. Her research focuses on the
relationships between and amongst females’ lives and formal,
non-formal and informal educational opportunities and experiences.
Her recent work makes use of social theory’s methodological
relationism which demonstrates the ways in which agency and
structure are inextricably and meaningfully integrated into the
lives of girls and women. In so doing, her work seeks to reveal the
dynamic interaction of both the micro and macro to help clarify and
shed light on the relationship between females’ lives and
education.
Her articles, book chapters, and books utilize an interdisciplinary
theoretical focus and mixed methodological methods to investigate
these relationships for girls and women in the China, Turkey,
India, and Nepal. Several examples of her work include articles
found in the International Journal of Educational
Development, Education Review and Gender &
Education, as well as her books, Daughters of the Tharu:
Gender, ethnicity, religion and the education of Nepali girls,
RoutledgeFalmer Press, 2003 and Structure and Agency:
Engendering educational policies, practices and programs for
adolescent girls and young women, SUNY Press 2008.
Dr. Maslak has served as the chair of the Gender and Education
committee for the Comparative and International Education Society
(CIES, 2001-2004), and on the organization’s Board of Directors
(2005-2008). Amongst other distinctions, she was awarded the
prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship (People’s Republic of
China, 2005-2006) for her project entitled “Toward Meeting National
and International Goals: The Study of Gender Inequity in Chinese
Ethnic Minority Communities” and a Fulbright-Hays Summer Study
Fellowship for her work on women’s development in India (2005).
Dr. Maslak also teaches courses at
St. John's. Most recently, she offers course on research methods
and the sociology of education in the School of Education's
graduate program and the methods in art and music for elementary
school students in the undergraduate program. She founded and
administers the Faculty Forum, a group dedicated to the
dissemination and discussion of scholarly research in the School of
Education.