Professional Background
Professor of Higher Education
Educational Background
- B.A., University of Texas, Austin
- M.A., University of Texas, Brownsville and Edinburg
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Scholarly Interests
Anna Neumann's research and teaching interests include: learning in lifespan perspective, professors and their intellectual careers, teaching and learning in higher education, women's scholarly development, academic cultures, qualitative research methodology (interview research), and doctoral students' learning of research and development as researchers. Her recently published book, Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) analyzes the scholarly learning and development of 78 early midcareer professors in diverse disciplines and fields and working at five major American research universities. Neumann is currently initiating a classroom-based study of undergraduate teaching and learning in the liberal arts curriculum in urban, high minority-serving institutions. Recent writings have focused on professors' learning in their teaching, research, and service; aesthetic dimensions of scholarly learning; and doctoral students' learning of research in education and the social sciences.
Selected Publications
RECENT BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS:
Neumann, Anna. Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. For information, see: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9491.html
O'Meara, KerryAnn, Aimee LaPointe Terosky, & Anna Neumann. Faculty Careers and Work Lives: A Professional Growth Perspective. ASHE Higher Education Report, no. 34(3). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Neumann, Anna, Aaron Pallas, & Penelope L. Peterson, eds. Investment in the Future: Improving Education Research at Four Leading Schools of Education: Campus Experiences of the Spencer Foundation's Research Training Grant Program. Special Issue of Teachers College Record, Vol. 110 No. 7, July 2008.http://www.tcrecord.org/
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
Neumann, Anna. "Protecting the Passion of Scholars in Times of Change." Change, Vol. 41, No. 2, March/April 2009, pp. 10-15.
Neumann, Anna, Aaron Pallas, & Penelope L. Peterson. "Exploring the Investment: Four Universities' Experiences with the Spencer Foundation's Research Training Grant Program: A Retrospective." In Investment in the Future: Improving Education Research at Four Leading Schools of Education: Campus Experiences of the Spencer Foundation's Research Training Grant Program. Special Issue of Teachers College Record, Vol. 110 No. 7, July 2008, pp. 1477-1503. http://www.tcrecord.org/
Terosky, Aimee LaPointe, Tamsyn Phifer, & Anna Neumann. "Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research Universities." Women in Academe: The Unfinished Agenda, edited by Judith Glazer-Raymo. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2008.
Neumann, Anna, & Aimee LaPointe Terosky. "To Give and to Receive: Recently Tenured Professors' Experiences of Service in Major Research Universities." The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 78, No. 3, May/June 2007, pp. 282-310.
Neumann, Anna. "Professing Passion: Emotion in the Scholarship of Professors in Research Universities." American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 381-424.
Neumann, Anna, & Aaron M. Pallas. "Windows of Possibility: Perspectives on the Construction of Educational Researchers." The Sage Handbook for Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry, edited by Clifton Conrad & Ronald C. Serlin. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006, pp.429-449.
Neumann, Anna, Aimee LaPointe Terosky, & Julie Schell. "Agents of Learning: Strategies for Assuming Agency, for Learning, in Tenured Faculty Careers." The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives, edited by Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane Dean. Women's Caucus of the American Association for Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2006.
Neumann, Anna. "To Glimpse Beauty and Awaken Meaning: Scholarly Learning as Aesthetic Experience," published as part of "Symposium: Aesthetic Lives: Teaching and Learning as Creative Work." Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer 2005, pp. 68-88.
Custodero, Lori A., Anna Neumann, & David T. Hansen. "Introduction to Aesthetic Lives: Teaching and Learning as Creative Work," published as part of "Symposium: Aesthetic Lives: Teaching and Learning as Creative Work." Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer 2005, pp. 33-35.
Neumann, Anna. "Observations: Taking Seriously the Topic of Learning in Studies of Faculty Work and Careers." In Advancing Faculty Learning through Interdisciplinary Collaboration, edited by Elizabeth G. Creamer & Lisa Lattuca, New Directions in Teaching and Learning, Marilla D. Svinicki, Editor in Chief. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Summer 2005, pp. 63-83.
Neumann, Anna, Aaron M. Pallas, & Penelope L. Peterson. "Preparing Education Practitioners to Practice Education Research." In Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities, edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann & Lee S. Shulman, Commission for Improving Educational Research, National Academy of Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,1999, pp. 247-288.
Neumann, Anna. "Inventing a Labor of Love: Scholarship as a Woman's Work." In Women's Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity, edited by Mary Romero & Abigail J. Stewart. New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 243-255.
Anna Neumann
Professor of Higher Education
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