Mariana Levin

levin(at)berkeley(dot)edu

Research Interests: mathematical cognition, conceptual change, development of algebraic reasoning, role of representations in mathematical thinking and learning, educational equity

Methodologies: primarily qualitative (e.g. knowledge analysis, microgenetic analysis, verbal protocol analysis, video analysis of classroom mathematical activity, educational ethnography, clinical interviews)

Education:

University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in mathematics education (expected, May 2010)

Dissertation: Leveraging Linearity: The development of algebraic thinking through students’ informal approaches to problem solving (working title) 

Advisor: Professor Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley M.A. by research in pure mathematics (May 2003)

Thesis: On fixed points for discrete logarithms

Advisors:  Professor Paul A. Vojta, University of California, Berkeley & Professor Carl B. Pomerance, Dartmouth College

University of Pennsylvania—graduate coursework in mathematics (2002)

University of California, San Diego B.A. in pure mathematics (June 2000)

Awards and Honors:

Alice T. Schafer Prize. See http://www.awm-math.org/schaferprize/2000.html for the citation from the Association for Women in Mathematics (January 2000)

Phi Beta Kappa (elected June 1999)

Fellowships:

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies GRPW Mathematics Research Fellowship (Fall 2000-Spring 2003)

Calabi Scholar, Mathematics Department, University of Pennsylvania (2002-2003)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Diversity in Mathematics Education Fellow-University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2004-Spring 2009)

Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) Research in Cognition and Mathematics Education (RCME) Fellow (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)

UC Berkeley University Fellowship (2000-01; 2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-07)

A longer version of my CV is attached to this page.