Madison Fitzgerald-Russell
Ph.D., Science Education: Physics, Western Michigan University, 2022
M.A., Physics, Western Michigan University, 2020
B.S., Astrophysics, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, 2016
B.A., Women's &Gender Studies, LGBTQ & Sexuality Studies, Michigan State University, 2016
Dr. Fitzgerald-Russell (she/they) is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, where they work with the HHMI-funded Learning Community Cluster 2 on inclusive STEM education in higher education. She graduated in 2022 with a PhD in Science Education: Physics from Western Michigan University, and her her dissertation qualitatively explored the experiences and perceptions of queer and trans science-major undergraduate students through a queer theory and intersectional lens. Their research goals include creating spaces for inclusion in and expanding equity of STEM education for marginalized folks in both K12 and higher education, focusing on queer and trans folks. Her discipline focus is physics and astronomy, and she has a background teaching physics, astronomy, physical science, chemistry, and mathematics.
Madison has been involved in efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in STEM, including serving on three conference organizing committees (CUWiP @ WMU 2022, PERC 2022: Queering physics education, and PRIMSATIC) and as a panelist for workshops (LGBTQIA Panel for CUWiP 2022 and 2023). She is a QTPiE (Queer and Trans People in Education) Emerging Scholar, connected to a network of other queer and trans scholars in K12 and higher education. They are also involved with the TM-PICC survey team, which developed a model for understanding instructional change team collaborations and created a survey utilizing that model.
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