American University - School of Education, Teaching, and Health
Samples of Faculty Scholar Activities
Faculty Member
Name
#NAME?
• Anderson, A., & Berry, K. (in press). The influence of classroom drama on teachers’ language and
students' on-task behavior. Preventing School Failure.
• Anderson, A., Lin, C., & Wang, M. (2013). Prosodic sensitivity to native and novel language in children
with and without dyslexia. Dyslexia, 19(2), 92-112.
Anderson, Alida
• Anderson, A. (Ed.), (in press). Arts integration and special education: Voices from the field. New York, NY:
Routledge.
• Anderson, A., Nagy, K., & Davis, R. (2013, August). Demonstrations of practice using arts integration in
special education: Voices from the field. Panel presentation at the Arts Education and Special Education
Conference, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
•Anderson, A., Loughlin, S., & Berry, K. (2013, August). Classroom drama as a contextualized languagelearning environment. Research presentation at the Arts Education and Special Education Conference,
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Blumenthal, Sharon
• Burns, J., Lastica, J., Lombard, M., & Blumenthal, S. (in review). The Space Between: An Evolution of
Bounded Discourse Situated in a Community of Scholarship. Journal of the American
Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.
• The Question is the Answer: A Pedagogy of Inquiry in the Writing Classroom. Lecture and Workshop
presented at The 34th Annual Spring Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA (March, 2013).
• Belson, S. I., Hartmann, D., & Sherman, J. (2013). Digital Note Taking: The Use of Electronic Pens with
Students with Specific Learning Disabilities. Journal of Special Education Technology, 28(2), 13.
Irvine Belson, Sarah
• Snelling, A., Ernst, J., and Irvine Belson, S. (2013) Teachers as Role Models in Solving Childhood Obesity,
Journal of Pediatric Biochemistry.
• Irvine Belson, S. (2013). School Context and Teacher Retention in Urban Settings: The Case in
Washington DC. Paper to be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.
• Robinson, E., McGrath, L.M., Santangelo, S. (in press). Lifecourse approaches approaches to the genetic
epidemiology of mental illness. In K. Koenen, S. Rudenstine, E. Susser, S. Galea (Eds.) Life Course
Epidemiology of Mental Disorders, Oxford University Press.
• McGrath, L.M, Cornelis, M., Lee, P.H., Perlis, R.H., Robinson, E., Duncan, L., Barnett, J.H., Huang, J., Sklar, P.,
Sullivan, P., Smoller, J.W. (in press). Risk and Resilience in Psychiatric Disorders: A Cross-Disorder Genomewide Association Study of Functional Impairment in Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and
Schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics.
McGrath, Lauren
• Smoller, J. W., Gallagher, P. J., Duncan, L.E, McGrath, L.M., Haddad, S., Holmes, A.J., Wolf,
A.B., Hilker, S., Block, S., Weill, S., Young, S., Choi, E. Y., Rosenbaum, J. R., Biederman, J., Faraone, S.,
Roffman, J., Manfro, G.G., Blaya, C., Hirshfeld-Becker, D., Stein, M.B., Ameringen, M.G., Tolin, D.F., Otto,
M.W., Pollack, M.H., Simon, N.,
• Buckner, R. L., Ongur, D., Cohen, B.M. (in press). The Human Ortholog of Acid-Sensing Ion Channel Gene
ASIC1a Is Associated With Panic Disorder And Amygdala Structure And Function Simon, Biological
Psychiatry.
American University - School of Education, Teaching, and Health
McGrath, Lauren
Samples of Faculty Scholar Activities
Faculty Member
Name
#NAME?
• Dodd, H.F., McGrath, L.M., Dai, Y.,** Oates, J., Waxler, J., McDougle, C., Pober, B., Smoller,
J. (June 2014). Attentional biases for emotional faces in Williams Syndrome. Poster submitted for
presentation at the Neurodevelopmental Seminar Series, Durham University, Durham, UK, refereed.
• The dynamics of bilingual education. October 2013. Talk given at American University’s College of Arts &
Science’s Graduate Studies Night, Washington, DC. Available via ITunes University Podcast (American
University-SETH).
Nuevo, Ana-Maria
• September 2013. Paper presented at American University’ School of Education, Teaching and
Health Faculty Colloquium, Washington, DC.
• Egi, T., Adams, R., & Nuevo, A. (2013) Is metalinguistic recall reactive in second language learning?
In J. Bergsleithner, S. Frota & J. Yoshioka (Eds.) Noticing and Second Language Acquisition:
Studies in Honor of Richard Schmidt. (pp. 81- 102) Honolulu, Hawai’i: National Foreign Language
Research Center.
• Maroto M, Snelling A, Linck H. “Food insecurity among community college students: prevalence and
association with grade point average.” Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
Accepted. August 2013.
• Young K*, Snelling A, Maroto M. “Consumption of fruits and vegetables in middle school students
following the implementation of a school district wellness policy.” Journal of Child Management and
Nutrition. 2013;37(2).
Snelling, Anastasia
• Snelling, A., Stevenson, M. “Taking care of our teachers.” Education Week. August 21, 2013.
• Taste-Test Interventions Spark Elementary-School Children’s Interests and Appetites (with S. Sunderlin, M.
Kalicki, C. Newman, L. Mancino, J. Guthrie). American Society of Nutrition Conference. December 2013
• School wellness policies: Are they achieving the intended results? (with S. Irvine Belson). American
School Health Association Conference. October 2013.
• Vassallo, S. (2013). Self-Regulated Learning: An Application of Critical Educational Psychology. Peter
Lang: New York. (Winner of AESA’s 2013 Critics Choice Book Award).
Vassallo, Stephen
• Vassallo, S. (2013). Neoliberalism: Resistance to self-regulated learning pedagogy in an urban classroom.
Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, 11, 240-281.
• Vasquez, V. & Felderman, C. (2013). Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood. New York, N.Y.:
Routledge Press. Amazon Bestsellers List (June 2013/ Top 100).
• Vasquez, V. , Tate, S., & Harste, J.C. (2013). Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers. New York, N.Y.:
Routledge Press.
Vasquez, Vivian
• Vasquez, V. & Wood, J. (Eds)(2013) Perspectives and Provocations in Early Childhood Education. Volume
1. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
• Vasquez, V., Felderman, C . and Herring Darolia, L. (2013) Critical Literacy: Where We’ve Been and
Where We’re Headed. Day of Early Childhood Education, National Council of Teachers of English Annual
Convention. Boston, November.
• Vasquez, V. (2013) Literacy as Inquiry: Perspectives and Possibilities. Day of Literay The Rainbow
District School Board Professional Development Event. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.