Marleen Pugach Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Marleen Pugach teaches in the Middle Childhood - Early Adolescence program and the doctoral program. Her research interests are collaborative programs for teacher preparation that link general and special education in urban areas, urban school-university partnerships, the intersection of inclusion and school reform, and qualitative methods of research. She is a member of the Leadership and Implementation Team of the Milwaukee Partnership Academy.
She has served as the principal investigator on several major grants and is currently the co-principal investigator for Teachers for a New Era, a $5 million grant funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to improve the quality of teacher preparation.
Pugach is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois College of Education, the TED/Merrill Award for Excellence in Teacher Education from the Council for Exceptional Children, and the 1998 Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. In 2006 she was a fulbright scholar at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Pugach is the author of the book "Because Teaching Matters." She is also author of "On the Border of Opportunity: Education, Community and Language at the U.S.-Mexico Line," a qualitative study of a high school on the border. In addition, Pugach is co-author of "Collaborative Practitioner, Collaborative Schools," now in its second edition, and the author of many scholarly articles. She has served as associate editor of the journals Exceptional Children and Teacher Education and Special Education, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Teacher Education. Pugach earned an M.S.Ed. from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
e-mail: mpugach@uwm.edu
phone: 414-229-6071
Location:
Enderis Hall 355, 2400 E. Hartford Ave.
Mailing Address:
UWM School of Education
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
