Anna Neumann

Teachers College, Columbia University

Edward S. Evenden Professor of Education

Anna Neumann is the Edward S. Evenden Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She studies teaching in urban colleges and universities with an eye to improving first-generation students' subject-matter learning in first- and second-year college courses (in general/liberal education), and in post-graduate education (in law school). She strives to illuminate what high-quality college teaching entails and how college and university professors learn to teach, with implications for design of professional development programs and practices that support postsecondary instructional improvement. Neumann also studies professors' intellectual careers, doctoral students' learning of research, and academic organization and leadership. Neumann's research has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, Review of Higher Education, among others. Her books include Convergent Teaching: Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College (with Aaron M. Pallas, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), a reconceptualization of undergraduate teaching with implications for improvement; Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University, an analysis of 40 university professors' scholarly learning and intellectual identity development in the early post-tenure career (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009); and Learning from Our Lives: Women, Research, and Autobiography in Education (co-edited with Penelope L. Peterson, Teachers College Press, 1997), a study of the personal meaning of research in academic women's lives in the field of education. Other volumes address professors' career-long learning and growth, collegiate cultures, and leadership cognition. Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the Teagle Foundation, the U.S. Office of Education, the Lilly Endowment, and TIAA-CREF. A Fellow of the American Education Research Association and an elected member of the National Academy of Education, Neumann also is the recipient of her field's top two research awards: the Research Achievement Award of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the Exemplary Research Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division J (Higher and Postsecondary Education). She is past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. For over a decade she directed the Program in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College where she also served as department chair.