Mary Ann Maslak, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Queens Campus:
Sullivan Hall Room 426
(718) 990-2580
Manhattan Campus:
101 Murray Street, Suite 422
(212) 277-5122

Office Hours
Queens
Monday 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Manhattan
Tuesdays 4:30 – 6:00 p.m., 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Mary Ann Maslak is an associate professor of education at St. John’s University in New York, USA. Her research focuses on girls’ and women’s education in South and East Asia.  Specifically, she conducts field-based research that examines how gender, ethnicity, religion relate to educational participation for females. Her publications include peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and several books. Two of her recent books are Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Education, Ethnicity, Religion and the Education of Nepali Girls (Routledge) and The Structure and Agency of Women’s Education (SUNY Press). Dr. Maslak also teaches and speaks regularly on topics related to gender and development, research methods and the sociology of education.

Dr. Maslak has served as the chair of the Gender and Education committee and the Board of Directors for the Comparative and International Education Society (2001-2004). Amongst other distinctions, she was awarded the Fulbright Research Fellowship (2005-2006) in the People’s Republic of China for her project entitled “Toward Meeting National and International Goals: The Study of Gender Inequity in Chinese Ethnic Minority Communities” a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to study women and development in India in 2004.