Abbe Herzig Research Assistant Professor OFFICE : ED 109 PHONE : (518) 442-5032 FAX: (518) 442-5008 EMAIL: aherzig@uamail.albany.edu

Abbe Herzig (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice in the School of Education, University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research and teaching concern equity, diversity, and social justice in mathematics education. She has completed a 6-year study of factors supporting the success of women and people of color in post-graduate mathematics, supported by an Early Career grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr Herzig has developed courses and programs to help diverse populations of young people discover the relevance of mathematics and science to their interests and realities. She was a co-Principal Investigator on a Mathematics-Science Partnership grant from the New York State Department of Education to provide sustained professional development to teachers of elementary and middle school mathematics in the Albany and Schenectady schools. Dr. Herzig is also a statistician in the Health Ratings Center of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, and has consulted on diversity-related projects for the Pew Charitable Trusts, the United Nations, the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, and the School of Engineering at Rutgers University.

Selected publications and other documents:

Lacampagne, Carole B., Campbell, Herzig, Abbe H., Damarin, Suzanne, and Vogt, Christina M. (2007). Gender Equity in Mathematics. In Sue Klein (Ed.). Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. Erlbaum. pp 235-254..

Herzig, Abbe H. (2006). “I just didn’t see that I had a place in the old white guy’s club”: How can women and students of color come to belong in graduate mathematics? In Jill M. Byzinstinsky & Sharon R. Bird (Eds.). Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 254-270.

Herzig, Abbe H. (2005). Goals for Achieving Diversity in Mathematics Classrooms. Mathematics Teacher, 99(4) (Focus Issue on the Human Dimensions of Mathematical Diversity), pp. 253-259.

Herzig, Abbe H. (2004). Becoming mathematicians: Women and students of color choosing and leaving doctoral mathematics. Review of Educational Research, 74(2), pp. 171-214.

Herzig, Abbe H. (2004). “Slaughtering this beautiful math”: Graduate women choosing and leaving mathematics. Gender and Education, 16(3), pp. 379-395.

Herzig, Abbe & Kung, David T. (2003). Cooperative learning in calculus reform: What have we learned? In Annie Selden, Ed Dubinsky, Guershon Harel, and Fernando Hitt (Eds.), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education V. Washington, DC: American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America. pp. 30-55.

Herzig, Abbe H. (2002). Where have all the students gone? Participation of doctoral students in authentic mathematical activity as a necessary condition for persistence toward the Ph.D. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 50(2), pp. 177-212.

BIRS Workshop on Women in Mathematics (2006). Women Mathematicians in the Academic Ranks: A Call to Action. Report prepared by the participants in the Workshop on Women in Mathematics, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, AB, Canada.

Herzig, Abbe H., Cohen-Corwin, Amy, & Manderscheid, David (2006). Finding and Keeping Graduate Students in the Mathematical Sciences. Report on outcomes of a workshop by the same name presented at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA.