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School of Individualized Study
Rochester Institute of Technology 93 Lomb Memorial drive Rochester, NY 14623 Email: [email protected] |
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts 3157 Eastman Hall 92 Lomb Memorial drive Rochester, NY 14623 |
Areas of Specialization
Urban Schools
Race, Ethnicity, & Immigration
Sociology of Education
Urban Schools
Race, Ethnicity, & Immigration
Sociology of Education
Education
Ph.D., Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
MS, School of Education, St. Bonaventure University,
St. Bonaventure, NY
BA, American Studies, State University of New York (SUNY) College at
Old Westbury, Westbury, NY
Attended: Gangneung – Wonju National University, South Korea, Spring 2000
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
MS, School of Education, St. Bonaventure University,
St. Bonaventure, NY
BA, American Studies, State University of New York (SUNY) College at
Old Westbury, Westbury, NY
Attended: Gangneung – Wonju National University, South Korea, Spring 2000
Employment History
2020 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology &
School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology
2018 – 2020 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology &
School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology
2016 – 2017 Senior Lead Researcher, Center for Public Safety Initiatives –
Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology
2015 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin—Madison &
The Community Place of Greater Rochester
2012 – 2013 Instructional Faculty, Department of Middle, Secondary Reading, and
Deaf Education Valdosta State University
2010 – 2012 Instructional Faculty, First Year Enrichment Program,
Rochester Institute of Technology
K-12 Teaching/Partnerships
2015 – 2017 Chief Diversity Consultant, West Irondequoit School District,
West Irondequoit, NY
2014 – 2015 Curriculum and Program Evaluator, Green Tech High Charter School,
Albany, NY
2014 – 2015 Curriculum Developer and Teaching Coach, Albany Charter School
Network, Albany, NY
2012 – 2014 Research Associate and Program Coordinator, See Your Future Experience (SYFE) Program,
Rochester Institute of Technology and Charlotte High School (RCSD), Rochester, NY
School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology
2018 – 2020 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology &
School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology
2016 – 2017 Senior Lead Researcher, Center for Public Safety Initiatives –
Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology
2015 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin—Madison &
The Community Place of Greater Rochester
2012 – 2013 Instructional Faculty, Department of Middle, Secondary Reading, and
Deaf Education Valdosta State University
2010 – 2012 Instructional Faculty, First Year Enrichment Program,
Rochester Institute of Technology
K-12 Teaching/Partnerships
2015 – 2017 Chief Diversity Consultant, West Irondequoit School District,
West Irondequoit, NY
2014 – 2015 Curriculum and Program Evaluator, Green Tech High Charter School,
Albany, NY
2014 – 2015 Curriculum Developer and Teaching Coach, Albany Charter School
Network, Albany, NY
2012 – 2014 Research Associate and Program Coordinator, See Your Future Experience (SYFE) Program,
Rochester Institute of Technology and Charlotte High School (RCSD), Rochester, NY
Grants and Awards
2024 RIT Provost’s Innovative Teaching Award ($1,250).
2023 RIT Division of Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Beacon Award
2023 NSF INCLUDES DDLP: WiSEN - Supporting Minoritized Women Students in STEM, Cultivating Pathways Using Co-Mentoring Networks. Co-PI. NSF 22-622 ($600,000).
2023 AdvanceRIT Connect Grant – Co-PI ($7,347.50)
2023 AdvanceRIT Connect Grant PI – ($3,500)
2021 Scholarship Recipient for National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program, RIT.
2021 Sponsored Research Services, Proposal Revision Fund, RIT ($5,000).
2019 Innovative Learning Institute, Faculty Development Grant, RIT ($2,000).
2019 Sponsored Research Services, RIT ($5,000).
2023 RIT Division of Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Beacon Award
2023 NSF INCLUDES DDLP: WiSEN - Supporting Minoritized Women Students in STEM, Cultivating Pathways Using Co-Mentoring Networks. Co-PI. NSF 22-622 ($600,000).
2023 AdvanceRIT Connect Grant – Co-PI ($7,347.50)
2023 AdvanceRIT Connect Grant PI – ($3,500)
2021 Scholarship Recipient for National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program, RIT.
2021 Sponsored Research Services, Proposal Revision Fund, RIT ($5,000).
2019 Innovative Learning Institute, Faculty Development Grant, RIT ($2,000).
2019 Sponsored Research Services, RIT ($5,000).
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2024 Beck, M., & Gordon, N. (2024). A Hip Hop Dialogic: Exploring Hip Hop Feminism in the College Classroom. Feminist Pedagogy, 4(3).
2022 Nganga, C., Williams Brown, K., Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J. (2022). Tapestries of epistemologies: Intersectional and transnational feminist
understandings of Caribbean and African women faculty’s influence as researchers. The Educational Forum, 86(4): 322-337. DOI:
10.1080/00131725.2022.2101813
2022 Beck, M., Nganga, C., Unteriner, A. Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Cobbs-Roberts, D., Agosto,V., Karanxha, Z., Wu, K. (2022).
Mentoring From Within: Developing a Virtual Mentoring Curriculum for a Network of Culturally Diverse Women Faculty.
Journal of Faculty Development, 36 (1): 71-81.
2022 Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Kern, A., Wu, K., Dickerson, M., and Howard, M. (2022).
“Critical Feminist Analysis of STEM Mentoring Programs: A Meta-Synthesis of the Existing Literature.”
Gender, Work & Organization, 29 (1): 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12729
2021 Nganga, C., Beck, M., and De Four-Babb, J. (2021). “Making sense of spirituality in our academic lives through co-mentoring.”
Journal for the Study of Spirituality 11 (1): 61-74. DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1898806
2017 Beck, M., Unterreiner, A., and De Four-Babb, J. (2017).
“Keeping our boots on the ground: Independent scholars maintaining academic identities.”
A Professing Education: A Journal of The Society of Professors of Education 16 (2): 67-84.
2017 Nganga, C., and Beck, M. (2017). “The power of dialogue and meaningful connectedness:
Conversations between two female scholars.” The Urban Review 49: 551-567. DOI 10.1007/s11256-017-0408-y
2016 Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z., Unterreiner, A., Cobb-Roberts, D., Esnard, T., Wu, K., and Beck, M. (2016).
“Running bamboo: A mentoring network of women intending to thrive in academia.”
NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education 9 (1): 74-89.
2016 Beck, M., & Nganga, C. (2016). “Narratives of foreign-born teachers: Implications for dialogic leadership for social justice.”
Educational Leadership Review 16 (3): 58-71.
2015 De Four-Babb, J., Pegg, J., and Beck, M. (2015). “Reducing intellectual poverty of outsiders within academic spaces
through informal peer mentorship.” Mentoring and Tutoring Journal 23 (1): 76-93.
2015 Esnard, T., Cobb-Roberts, D., Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z., Beck, M., Wu, K., & Unterreiner, A. (2015).
“Productive tensions in a cross-cultural peer mentoring women’s network: A social capital perspective.”
Mentoring and Tutoring Journal 23 (1): 19-36.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
2022 Williams Brown, K., Beck, M., and Nganga, C. (In Press). “Transnational Feminist Understandings of the
Neoliberal Recruitment of International Women Teachers of Color.” In C. Gist, and T. Bristol (eds.),
The Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color.
2017 Cobb-Roberts, D., Esnard, T., Unterreiner, A., Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z, Beck, M., and Wu, K. (2017).
“Race, gender and mentoring in higher education.” In D. Clutterback, A. McClelland, F. Kochon, L. Lunsford, and B. Smith (eds.),
SAGE Handbook of Mentoring, pp. 374-388. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2016 Thorsos, N., Johnannessen, G., Beck, M., and Nganga, C. (2016). “Synergy, care, and constructive chaos:
Understanding the dynamics of an international co-mentoring network.” In G. Guzman-Johnannessen (ed.),
Mentoring Outside Politics, Policies, and Practices in Institutions of Higher Education, pp. 57-71. New York, NY: Springer.
Encyclopedia Entries
2017 Beck, M. (2017). Infertility. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2024 Beck, M., & Gordon, N. (2024). A Hip Hop Dialogic: Exploring Hip Hop Feminism in the College Classroom. Feminist Pedagogy, 4(3).
2022 Nganga, C., Williams Brown, K., Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J. (2022). Tapestries of epistemologies: Intersectional and transnational feminist
understandings of Caribbean and African women faculty’s influence as researchers. The Educational Forum, 86(4): 322-337. DOI:
10.1080/00131725.2022.2101813
2022 Beck, M., Nganga, C., Unteriner, A. Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Cobbs-Roberts, D., Agosto,V., Karanxha, Z., Wu, K. (2022).
Mentoring From Within: Developing a Virtual Mentoring Curriculum for a Network of Culturally Diverse Women Faculty.
Journal of Faculty Development, 36 (1): 71-81.
2022 Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Kern, A., Wu, K., Dickerson, M., and Howard, M. (2022).
“Critical Feminist Analysis of STEM Mentoring Programs: A Meta-Synthesis of the Existing Literature.”
Gender, Work & Organization, 29 (1): 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12729
2021 Nganga, C., Beck, M., and De Four-Babb, J. (2021). “Making sense of spirituality in our academic lives through co-mentoring.”
Journal for the Study of Spirituality 11 (1): 61-74. DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1898806
2017 Beck, M., Unterreiner, A., and De Four-Babb, J. (2017).
“Keeping our boots on the ground: Independent scholars maintaining academic identities.”
A Professing Education: A Journal of The Society of Professors of Education 16 (2): 67-84.
2017 Nganga, C., and Beck, M. (2017). “The power of dialogue and meaningful connectedness:
Conversations between two female scholars.” The Urban Review 49: 551-567. DOI 10.1007/s11256-017-0408-y
2016 Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z., Unterreiner, A., Cobb-Roberts, D., Esnard, T., Wu, K., and Beck, M. (2016).
“Running bamboo: A mentoring network of women intending to thrive in academia.”
NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education 9 (1): 74-89.
2016 Beck, M., & Nganga, C. (2016). “Narratives of foreign-born teachers: Implications for dialogic leadership for social justice.”
Educational Leadership Review 16 (3): 58-71.
2015 De Four-Babb, J., Pegg, J., and Beck, M. (2015). “Reducing intellectual poverty of outsiders within academic spaces
through informal peer mentorship.” Mentoring and Tutoring Journal 23 (1): 76-93.
2015 Esnard, T., Cobb-Roberts, D., Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z., Beck, M., Wu, K., & Unterreiner, A. (2015).
“Productive tensions in a cross-cultural peer mentoring women’s network: A social capital perspective.”
Mentoring and Tutoring Journal 23 (1): 19-36.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
2022 Williams Brown, K., Beck, M., and Nganga, C. (In Press). “Transnational Feminist Understandings of the
Neoliberal Recruitment of International Women Teachers of Color.” In C. Gist, and T. Bristol (eds.),
The Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color.
2017 Cobb-Roberts, D., Esnard, T., Unterreiner, A., Agosto, V., Karanxha, Z, Beck, M., and Wu, K. (2017).
“Race, gender and mentoring in higher education.” In D. Clutterback, A. McClelland, F. Kochon, L. Lunsford, and B. Smith (eds.),
SAGE Handbook of Mentoring, pp. 374-388. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2016 Thorsos, N., Johnannessen, G., Beck, M., and Nganga, C. (2016). “Synergy, care, and constructive chaos:
Understanding the dynamics of an international co-mentoring network.” In G. Guzman-Johnannessen (ed.),
Mentoring Outside Politics, Policies, and Practices in Institutions of Higher Education, pp. 57-71. New York, NY: Springer.
Encyclopedia Entries
2017 Beck, M. (2017). Infertility. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Teaching Experience
Rochester Institute of Technology
Civic and Community Engagement
Environmental Injustice Senior Capstone Experience
Urban Poverty
Urban (In)Justice
Foundations of Sociology
Honors Sociology
Individuals and Society
Research in Cross Cultural Settings (Study Abroad Course)
Valdosta State University
Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning; Strategic Planning for
School Reform; Capstone Seminar
Nazareth College, School of Education
Teacher Learner Research and Inquiry
Teacher Learner Research and Inquiry Online/ Hybrid Course
History and Philosophy of Education
St. John Fisher College, School of Education
Literacy, Language, and Diversity in American Schools
University of Rochester
Teaching, Curriculum and Change
Methods of Inquiry
Academic Tactics and Strategies
Leadership in the College Community
Civic and Community Engagement
Environmental Injustice Senior Capstone Experience
Urban Poverty
Urban (In)Justice
Foundations of Sociology
Honors Sociology
Individuals and Society
Research in Cross Cultural Settings (Study Abroad Course)
Valdosta State University
Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning; Strategic Planning for
School Reform; Capstone Seminar
Nazareth College, School of Education
Teacher Learner Research and Inquiry
Teacher Learner Research and Inquiry Online/ Hybrid Course
History and Philosophy of Education
St. John Fisher College, School of Education
Literacy, Language, and Diversity in American Schools
University of Rochester
Teaching, Curriculum and Change
Methods of Inquiry
Academic Tactics and Strategies
Leadership in the College Community
Conference Presentations
2024 Beck, M. Ancestral Storytelling and Spirituality: (Re)membering Our Way Back to Ourselves Even in the Midst of the Academy. Invited Speaker Session. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 11, 2024
2024 Beck, M. “Experiences of Caribbean and African Immigrant Woman Educators”. 2nd Annual Code^Shift Research Symposium. Theme: Othered Immigrants: Inclusive Storytelling for Well-Being, Advocacy, and Counternarratives, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 5.
2024 Howard, M., Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Wargo, E., Wu, K., & Bark, S. "Towards A Critical Feminist Mentoring Approach with U.S. STEM Women Students.” Caribbean Conference on Affirming Methodologies - Connections and Understandings through Indigenous and Local Ways of Knowing, University of Belize, Belize City, May 20-23.
2023 Chaired Session for the Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society (AMPS) online Conference, December 7, 2023
Session title: Approaches to Decolonization
Papers: “Decolonizing Design Perspectives: Rewriting South African Writing Systems”, J. Kavishe; “Tree Friends, Traditional Structures and Indigenous Ways of Being”, A. Mashford-Pringle; “Anthropocene Specters of the Salish Sea”, J. Thompson.
2023 Beck, M. WiSEN Women in STEM Education Network. Presentation for RIT President’s Commission on Women. November 6
2023 Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Beck, M., Feliciano-Semidei, R., Cadwell, J., Wu, K., Howard, M., Wargo, L., Cobb-Roberts, D., Dickerson, M., Kern, A. “WiSEN (Women in Stem Education Network): Charting a course forward in the pursuit of women’s consequential truths in mentoring.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2023 Dickerson, M. Wu, K., Beck, M., Cobb-Roberts, D., Kern, A., Nganga, C. “Unpacking the ‘Untruths’: Using Collaborative Auto- Ethnography to Mentor Women of Color in Academia.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2023 Williams Brown, K., Nganga, C., Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J. “Mentoring through Acknowledging Epistemic Truths.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2022 Beck, M. (Re)claiming the Academic Self in Ghana, West Africa.
American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2022 Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Wu, K., Kern, A., Esnard, T., Cobbs-Roberts, D., Dickerson, M., Aragon, A.,
Howard, M., Feliciano-Semidei, R. “WiSEN-Exploring an Intercultural Mentoring Framework for
Minoritized Women in STEM.” American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2022 Nganga, C., Williams Brown, K, Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J.
“Caribbean and African Women Faculty’s Transnational Feminist Understandings of Becoming Academics.”
American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2021 Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Beck, M., Karanxha, Z., Cobbs-Roberts, D., and Agosto, V. “Feminst Emotions,
Conscientization and Ways of Knowing: Femtoring Through Evocative Poetic Ethnographic Approaches During
COVID-19”. American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Beck, M. "Healing the Academic Self in Ghana, West Africa."
National Communication Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, November 18-21.
2021 Cadwell, J., Beck, M. Kern, A., Wu, K., and Dickerson, M. “Mentorship of Females in STEM:
Best Practices for Institutional Administrators Using a Critical Feminist Lens”.
American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Nganga, C., and Beck, M. “Spiritual Sustenance: Faculty of Color Co-Mentoring During a Global Pandemic”.
American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Beck, M., Nganga, C., and De Four-Babb, J. “Women Faculty Identity Politics and Spiritual Theorizing.
Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Georgetown Guyana, May 31-June 4.
2017 Beck, M. (2017). Infertility. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2024 Beck, M. “Experiences of Caribbean and African Immigrant Woman Educators”. 2nd Annual Code^Shift Research Symposium. Theme: Othered Immigrants: Inclusive Storytelling for Well-Being, Advocacy, and Counternarratives, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 5.
2024 Howard, M., Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Wargo, E., Wu, K., & Bark, S. "Towards A Critical Feminist Mentoring Approach with U.S. STEM Women Students.” Caribbean Conference on Affirming Methodologies - Connections and Understandings through Indigenous and Local Ways of Knowing, University of Belize, Belize City, May 20-23.
2023 Chaired Session for the Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society (AMPS) online Conference, December 7, 2023
Session title: Approaches to Decolonization
Papers: “Decolonizing Design Perspectives: Rewriting South African Writing Systems”, J. Kavishe; “Tree Friends, Traditional Structures and Indigenous Ways of Being”, A. Mashford-Pringle; “Anthropocene Specters of the Salish Sea”, J. Thompson.
2023 Beck, M. WiSEN Women in STEM Education Network. Presentation for RIT President’s Commission on Women. November 6
2023 Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Beck, M., Feliciano-Semidei, R., Cadwell, J., Wu, K., Howard, M., Wargo, L., Cobb-Roberts, D., Dickerson, M., Kern, A. “WiSEN (Women in Stem Education Network): Charting a course forward in the pursuit of women’s consequential truths in mentoring.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2023 Dickerson, M. Wu, K., Beck, M., Cobb-Roberts, D., Kern, A., Nganga, C. “Unpacking the ‘Untruths’: Using Collaborative Auto- Ethnography to Mentor Women of Color in Academia.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2023 Williams Brown, K., Nganga, C., Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J. “Mentoring through Acknowledging Epistemic Truths.” Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 13-16.
2022 Beck, M. (Re)claiming the Academic Self in Ghana, West Africa.
American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2022 Beck, M., Cadwell, J., Wu, K., Kern, A., Esnard, T., Cobbs-Roberts, D., Dickerson, M., Aragon, A.,
Howard, M., Feliciano-Semidei, R. “WiSEN-Exploring an Intercultural Mentoring Framework for
Minoritized Women in STEM.” American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2022 Nganga, C., Williams Brown, K, Beck, M., De Four-Babb, J.
“Caribbean and African Women Faculty’s Transnational Feminist Understandings of Becoming Academics.”
American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 21-26.
2021 Aragon, A., Esnard, T., Beck, M., Karanxha, Z., Cobbs-Roberts, D., and Agosto, V. “Feminst Emotions,
Conscientization and Ways of Knowing: Femtoring Through Evocative Poetic Ethnographic Approaches During
COVID-19”. American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Beck, M. "Healing the Academic Self in Ghana, West Africa."
National Communication Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, November 18-21.
2021 Cadwell, J., Beck, M. Kern, A., Wu, K., and Dickerson, M. “Mentorship of Females in STEM:
Best Practices for Institutional Administrators Using a Critical Feminist Lens”.
American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Nganga, C., and Beck, M. “Spiritual Sustenance: Faculty of Color Co-Mentoring During a Global Pandemic”.
American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-12.
2021 Beck, M., Nganga, C., and De Four-Babb, J. “Women Faculty Identity Politics and Spiritual Theorizing.
Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Georgetown Guyana, May 31-June 4.
2017 Beck, M. (2017). Infertility. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.