People

CIRGE researchers and staff value excellence, collaboration, and pragmatism. As a group, we apply our cross disciplinary expertise strategically to provide services in survey design and analysis, report writing, innovative workshop facilitation and international network building. As a result, CIRGE is internationally recognized among program leaders, major founders and policy makers as a trusted source of insightful analysis and practical information for improving graduate education.

Director

Maresi Nerad, PhD. Maresi Nerad is the founding director of the national Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE)* and Associate Professor for Higher Education in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program College of Education, at the University of Washington, Seattle. She also served as Associate Graduate Dean of Research for the Graduate School at the University of Washington from 2004 until 2009.

She received her doctorate in higher education from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988. From 1988 until 2001, Dr. Nerad directed research in the Graduate Division at the University of California-Berkeley and spent the six months in 2000 as Dean in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools. In 2005 she was nominated for the Miegunyah Fellow by the University of Melbourne, Australia, and spent three months at the University of Australia.
She is the author or editor of four books on higher education: Towards a Global PhD? Changes in Doctoral Education Worldwide (2008,) The Academic Kitchen: a Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California (1999), Graduate Education in the United States (1997), and Feministische Wissenschaft und Frauenstudium. (Feminist Research and Women’s Studies in the U.S.) (1982).
As Principle Investigator or Co-investigator she has received grants totalling more than $2.2 million from various public and private sources such as NSF, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Getty Grants Foundations. 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.

Staff

Renate Sadrozinski, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist with CIRGE who undertakes cross-cultural research in graduate/doctoral education for CIRGE. She received her PhD at the University of Bremen, Germany in sociology. In Germany Dr. Sadrozinski was the director of research of the Equal Opportunity Office of the state of Hamburg. She has published several books and many articles and reports in the areas of women and careers in the public service, battered women, immigrant women, and women’s health. She has been working with the European University Institute to customize the CIRGE survey for their use and for later comparison of their results with CIRGE survey results. She directed the PhDs in Art History – Over a Decade Later study and had worked on the PhDs—Ten Years Later project.

Myan Baker is a consultant with CIRGE who specializes in innovation and organizational change. Myan has designed and implemented a multi-year series of workshops to develop effective, values-based leadership and career capabilities for PhDs and post-doctoral scientists. She worked extensively with the Urban Ecology IGERT faculty and students on project management, teamwork, and leadership building. She is on-call for feedback and advice and facilitates CIRGE’s biannual retreats.

Affiliated Faculty

Angela Ginorio, PhD. is associate professor in Women Studies, and adjunct associate professor in the Departments of Psychology and American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle. She teaches courses on “Women and/Science,” “Issues for ethnic minorities and women in science and engineering” and “Women and Violence.” She developed and directed the Rural Girls in Science Program that operated out of the University of Washington from 1992-2006. She just finished work as P.I. of the Sloan Foundation funded Interdisciplinary Social Science Approaches to the Participation of Ethnic Minorities in STEM. Her scholarship focuses on ethnic minorities and women in STEM, access issues in education for Latino/as and first-generation college students, and violence against women.She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Emory Morrison, PhD. is a sociologist, with a PhD from the UW, on the faculty at Mississippi State University. He took a leave of absence from his faculty position to accept a post-doctoral fellowship with CIRGE. An expert in statistical analysis, during his summer break, Dr. Morrison continues working with CIRGE as an affiliate member conducting quantitative analysis and writing papers for publication in conjunction with CIRGE members.

William Zumeta, PhD. joined the Evans School faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle in the fall of 1985. He served as associate dean from 2001-05 and acting dean from March-August in 1988. He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, University of California-Los Angeles, and the Claremont Graduate University. In addition to his faculty appointments, Zumeta is an Associated Scholar of the Program on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany (SUNY); Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education; and a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute. Zumeta teaches in the areas of policy analysis and public policies toward education and higher education. His research interests focus on higher education and worker training policies and higher education finance and accountability. Outside of academia, Zumeta has been employed by or consulted with various private and nonprofit organizations, universities, and federal, state, and local government agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy and a MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a BA in political science from Haverford College.

Affiliate Scientists

Elizabeth Rudd, PhD. Dr. Rudd studies diversity and quality in doctoral education, careers of Ph.D. holders, and doctoral education internationally.  She has written about Ph.D. careers in several fields including art history, social science fields, biochemistry and mathematics. Her work includes analyses of gender differences, the impact of marriage and family on academic careers, postdoctoral appointments in science careers, and intellectual risk-taking in doctoral education.  Publications include “What Matters for Excellence in PhD Programs? Latent Constructs of Doctoral Program Quality Used By Early Career Social Scientists,” (forthcoming in Journal of Higher Education) and “Equality and Illusion: Gender and Tenure in Art History Careers,” Journal of Marriage and Family 70, pp. 228-238.

Dr. Rudd is an experienced evaluator of innovative doctoral education programs funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to promote interdisciplinary research.  She is currently evaluating a new Ph.D. program that brings together lab scientists, ecologists, and engineers and builds the capacity of American Indian tribes to establish renewable energy systems.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life at the University of Michigan, Dr. Rudd studied maternity and family leave among women engineers and factory workers.  Publications stemming from this work include Changing Landscapes of Work and Family in the American Middle Class: Reports from the Field (2008).  Her essay “Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America,” in M. Pitt-Catsouphes and E. Kossek (Eds.) Work-Family Encyclopedia, is available online at:

http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_entry.php?id=233&area=All.  Dr. Rudd’s Ph.D. thesis (U.C. Berkeley, 1999) investigated changing problems of work and family in former East Germany; it was based on qualitative fieldwork in Germany and in-depth interviews with more than 80 individuals.  This work was published in Ethnos and Gender & Society.

Global Network

Established during the first international conference CIRGE hosted on Forces and Forms of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide, the F&F Network is composed of members from 20 countries and all six continents who are experts in the field of doctoral education. CIRGE collaborates with members of the network for research projects, publication and policy recommendations. It is anticipated that this network will continue to grow and become more widely known; attracting additional members from other countries and institutions and thus exponentially increasing the depth and value of this resource for all members of the network.   For a list of all members, click here:  F&F Network Members