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.