Biography
Thierry is currently an associate professor of mathematics and First-Year Studies program at Stockton University. He earned a Ph.D. in urban education, with a concentration in mathematics education, from Temple University. He teaches courses on quantitative reasoning, algebraic modeling, academic identity, and qualitative research methods. His research focuses on identity as co-authored narratives, the social construction of the math self, mathematics education, urban education, and more recently the (re)framing of vulnerability and precarity as sources of resistance. His most recent book, Racial Inequality in Mathematics Education, published by Emerald, is an illustration of the complex “identity work” that some students have to engage in continually as a necessary component of their academic growth. Thierry’s writings have spanned across various genres and disciplines. Whether learning about housing inequity from unhoused Philadelphians at a public library, or studying the depths and pervasiveness of institutionalized racism, or exploring new forms and sources of resistance, Thierry’s writing seems to always be drawing attention to the idea of the individual and the group as continually “being formed in dynamic relation with society”; his work seems relentless in its insistence for new possibilities for this relationship.