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 courses on research methods and the sociology of education
in the School of Education’s graduate program and the foundations
of education in the undergraduate program. She founded and
administers the Faculty Forum, a group dedicated to the
dissemination and discussion of scholarly research. Presently in
its 13th year, the group offers a venue for the dissemination and
discussion of research in the School of Education.