Norma T. Mertz, EdD

Dr. Mertz is a professor of Higher Education Administration and Program Coordinator for the College Student Personnel Program. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Mertz teaches courses in higher education administration and student personnel, including values and ethics in educational leadership and research design, and directs doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses.
Dr. Mertz is the editor, and a contributor, to the 2009 book, Breaking into the All-Male Club: Female Professors of Educational Administration, from SUNY Press, and co-editor, with Vincent Anfara Jr., of Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research, from Sage. She is a frequent presenter at AERA, where she is presenting a paper with Brian Gearity at the upcoming AERA conference in New Orleans, Sharing our story: An autoethnograpy of a doctoral student and committee chair’s relationship in a higher education program, and serving as a panelist for a Division J session on publishing after tenure. Recent publications include, The socialization of assistant principals, in the Journal of School Leadership, The promise of Title IX: Longitudinal study of gender in urban administration, in Urban Education, and What’s a mentor, anyway? in Educational Administration Quarterly. Upcoming publications include a chapter in Women of Color in Higher Education: Contemporary Perspectives and New Directions, vol. 9, edited by. J.M. Gaetane and B. Lloyd-Jones, entitled, Women of color faculty: Recruiting, hiring and retention, and one with S. L. Pfleeger in The Diversity Mentoring Casebook, edited by D. Clutterbuck and K.M. Poulsen, entitled, If everyone who makes it has a mentor, does everyone who has a mentor make it? Case study of a corporate mentoring project.
Dr. Mertz’s research interests center on gender and leadership, mentoring, and role socialization.

Updated 03/09/2011