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Maresi Nerad Director, Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) Associate Dean, UW Graduate School Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies M221 Miller, Box 353600 College of Education, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3600 mnerad@u.washington.edu

Education Publications Curriculum Vitae

Maresi Nerad is the founding director of the national Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE), Associate Dean of the Graduate School (2003-2009), and Associate Professor for Higher Education in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program College of Education, all at the University of Washington, Seattle. CIRGE is the first such center for studies on graduate education in the US and undertakes systematic research on the career paths of PhD recipients and the assessment of the quality of doctoral education by asking PhD alumni. It evaluates innovations in graduate education locally and internationally. CIRGE convenes biannual international research synthesis workshops on “Forms and Forces of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide” funded by NSF, develops policy recommendations, and publishes on trends on doctoral education worldwide (2005, Seattle/ USA; 2007 Melbourne/ Australia; 2009 Kassel/Germany).

Dr. Nerad received her doctorate in higher education from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988. From 1988 until 2000, she directed research in the Graduate Division at the University of California-Berkeley and spent the 20001 academic year as Dean in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools. In 2005 she received the Miegunyah Fellowship and spent three months at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

s Principle Investigator or Co-investigator she has received grants totaling more than $3.2 million from various public and private sources such as NSF, Ford Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Getty Grants Foundation.  She has been a grant reviewer for NSF, Sloan, and the Getty Grants and served on many national advisory committees, the NRC Committee to Examine the Methodology for the 2005 Assessment of Research –Doctorate Programs; the AAU – Assessing Quality of University Education and Research (2001-2004); NSF advisory board on doctoral surveys (SED,SDR); and on postdoctoral education and training.

Having worked for over two decades in the field of doctoral education, her current research interests cover all aspects of doctoral education, particularly comparison of international doctoral programs, integrating international students and preparing domestic students with the skills needed for the globalized PhD labor market.  She directs a variety of national and international research and evaluation efforts to understand forces that promote and impede improvement and change in doctoral education. She is widely recognized internationally and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences on graduate She has been asked to serve as International Adviser (20

8-09) on Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSF) national study on accelerating PhD production; as international evaluator (2009) of the novel Graduate School at the Humboldt University, Berlin Germany; as advisor and facilitator at the strategic planning for the increase in PhD production at the Universiti Sains, Malaysia (USM) in Penang, Malaysia; as international peer reviewer (2007) for the German Research Council (DFG) graduate school research grants.  She was invited as a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences related to doctoral education.

Education

Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 1988.

Publications

Books

Nerad, M, Evans B. eds. 2009  The Impact of Globalization on Doctoral Education Worldwide (tentative title). Seattle: University of Washington Press (in preparation).

Nerad, M and Heggelund, M, eds. 2008.  Towards a Global PhD?  Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.  Seattle: University of Washington Press. April 2008. 

Nerad, M. 1999. The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. Albany: SUNY Press.

Nerad, M. with June, R. & Miller, D., eds. 1997. Graduate Education in the United States.  With an introduction by M. Nerad: "The Cyclical Problems of Graduate Education: Institutional Responses in the 1990s." New York: Garland Press.

Duelli Klein, R., Nerad, M. and Metz-Goeckel, S., eds. 1982.  Feministische Wissenschaft und Frauenstudium. (Feminist Research and Women's Studies in the U.S.) Hamburg, Germany: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hochschuldidaktik, Blickpunkt Hochschuldidaktik.

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Nerad, M. 2008. “Doctoral Education in the US,” in The Global PhD: Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.  University of Washington Press. 

Nerad, M. 2008.  “Confronting Common Assumptions: Designing Future-oriented Doctoral Education,”   in Ronald Ehrenberg (eds.) Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. Ithaka, NY: Cornell University Press. 

Nerad, M.  2007. “The Doctorate in the US,” in The Doctorate Worldwide.  Howard Green and Stuart Powell, Open University Press.  

Wulff, D, and Nerad M. 2006. “Using an Alignment Model as a Framework in the Assessment of Doctoral Programs,” in Assessing Learning at the Doctoral Level. eds. Peggy L. Maki and Nancy Borkowski. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus.

Aanerud, R., Homer L., Nerad, M., & Cerny, C. 2006. “Using Ph.D. Career Path Analysis and Ph.D.s’ Perceptions of Their Education as a Means to Assess Doctoral Program,” in Assessing Learning at the Doctoral Level. Eds. Peggy L. Maki and Nancy Borkowsk. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus.

Nerad, M. 2004. "Promovieren in den USA". (The US PhD) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst [DAAD] Hersg., Die Internationale Hochschule, Band 3: Bielefeld, Germany.

Nerad, M,, Aanerud, R. & Cerny, J.  2004 “So You Want to Be a Professor! Lessons from the PhDs—Ten Years Later Study,” in Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty. eds. Donald H. Wulff, Ann Austin, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Rudd, E, Morison E, Nerad, M, Sadrozinski, R. & Cerny, J 2007.  “Equality and Illusion:  Gender and Tenure in Art History Careers.” Journal of Marriage and the Family (revised after accepted review)

Aanerud, R., Homer L, Rudd, E., Morrison, E, Nerad M., & Cerny,J. 2007.  “Widening the Lens on Gender and Tenure: Looking beyond the Academic Labor Market.” National Women Studies Journal. 19:3.

Nerad, M. 2005. “From Graduate Student to World Citizen in a Global Environment,” International Higher Education, IHE 40, 8-9.

Nerad, M. 2004. “The PhD in the US: Criticisms, Facts and Remedies,” Higher Education Policy,vol.17, no. 2.

Nerad, M and Cerny, J., 2002. “Postdoctoral Appointments and Employment Patterns of Science and Engineering Doctoral Recipients Ten-plus Years after Ph.D. Completion: Selected Results from the ‘Ph.D.s – Ten Years Later Study,’” Communicator, Council of Graduate Schools, Washington. D.C.  Volume 35, no. 7; August-September 2002 (since 2000, articles in the Communicator are peer reviewed).

Nerad, M. and Cerny, J.. 1999.  “Postdoctoral Patterns, Career Advancement, and Problems,” in American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, vol. 285, pp. 1533-1535.
   
Nerad, M. 1987. “The Situation of Women Students at Berkeley, 1870-1915.”  Feminist Issues, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 67-80.
   
Nerad, M. 1987. “Gender Stratification in Higher Education: The Department of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, 1916-1962.” Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 157-164. London: Pergamon Press.

Courses

EDLPS 531

EDLPS 598A - Spring 2009