Maria Ann Noland
I am a teacher-scholar of anthropology and education currently writing up my doctoral dissertation, which examines the consequences of mainstreaming in France (l'école inclusive) for the education of visually impaired children through the intersection of theories of embodied cognition (enaction) and critical disability studies.
Education
Ph.D. candidate in the program in Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018-2024
MPhil, Columbia University, 2022
M.A. French Studies, New York University, 2018
B.A. Anthropology, New York University, 2016, magna cum laude
Cambridge CELTA - Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults
Articles
"An Esthetic Theory of the Subversive Sublime of Ital Cuisine." Food, Culture & Society. January 2023. 26:1, 24-46. (link)
"Teach for All: Profs-leaders pour l'école-marché." Carnets Rouges. 8 April 2017. (link)
Interviews
"Teach for Belgium et pour McKinsey?" Interviewed by Sandrine Warsztacki for the Belgian magazine Alter Echos, 3 September 2017. (link)
Interviewed by the French radio station France Culture, 11 August 2016 at 8am.
"Teach for France, un danger pour l'école publique." Interviewed by Sylvie Ducatteau for the French newspaper l'Humanité, 9 August 2016.
Presentations and Conferences
"Teach for France and Teach for Belgium: Examining two Francophone cases of public school marketization through isomorphic storytelling practices." Presentation accepted for the ECER Bolzano conference of the European Education Research Association (EERA), January 2018. (link)
"La transition éducative en Belgique." Invited lecture at the ISPG de la Haute Ecole Galilée, Brussels. 26 April 2018. (link)
"McKinsey à l'école." Invited lecture at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. 13 June 2017.
"The Universal Importance of Education Reform in France." Presentation at New York University GSAS Master's College Threesis Semifinals, 22 April 2017.
"The Pursuit of Habitus: A Bourdieusian analysis of NYC's French Dual Language Programs." Presentation at New York University Honors Scholars Symposium, 24 March 2016.
Teaching Experience
September 2021 - August 2023 - Instructor of EFL and Social Sciences at the Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
August 2020 - May 2021 - Early Childhood and Lower School French Teacher at Saint Richard's School, Indianapolis, Indiana
May 2019 - July 2019 - Early Childhood English Teacher for Visually Impaired Children at Bethel School for the Blind, Beijing, China
December 2016 - March 2020 - Private French Tutor for children in New York City
August 2016 - January 2017 - French Instructor at New York University, College of Arts and Sciences, New York City
Grants
2023 - 2024 - Teachers College Grant-in-Aid and Departmental Grant to support dissertation write-up
2022 - 2023 - Teachers College Dissertation Research Fellowship to support dissertation fieldwork
2019 - 2021 - Ruth and William Lubic Endowed Scholarship for Applied Anthropology to support coursework
April 2019 - Weatherhead East Asian Institute Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Summer Grant to support summer fieldwork
Awards
April 2017 - semi-finalist, NYU GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge (for master's thesis)
May 2016 - Founders' Day Award, NYU
March 2016 - Honors Scholar (for bachelor's thesis)