Professor
Department Chair
Biography
Angela C Johnson, PhD, is Professor of Educational Studies, the G. Thomas and Martha Myers Yeager ’41 Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and a former physics teacher. Dr. Johnson is an expert in equity and inclusion in STEM education; in particular, the inclusion of women, especially women of color. She uses ethnographic methods to study the structural features of science education settings that lead to systematical over- and under-representation; opportunities for agency for members of under represented groups to persist in science against the odds; and the agency of professors to broaden participation in STEM. Her model of the science identity trajectories of women of color has been adopted and extended in dozens of studies.
Education
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Ph.D. in Educational Anthropology at University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002
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A.B. in Physics at Bryn Mawr College, 1987
Spotlight
- Recent publications
Co-authored with students and former students
- Recent grants
Johnson, A. (2019). NSF SBE-UKRI collaborative grant: Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion ($103,479; 2019-22).
Hodari, A. & Johnson, A. (2017). NSF IUSE grant: Centering Women of Color in STEM: Identifying and Scaling Up what Helps Women of Color Thrive ($343,289; 2017-20)