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Indira Gil holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Mathematics from Florida International University. She has extensive experience teaching mathematics at the middle school, high school, and college levels. Her work is significantly informed by her experiences, with a primary focus on examining equity in education and providing students with opportunities to consider their roles in addressing and challenging inequities related to race, gender, sexuality, ability, and language. A vital aspect of Dr. Gil's work involves community engagement, such as her partnership with the Brown Summer High School (BSHS) program, where she collaborates with incoming Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) graduate students to create equity-based, culturally responsive curriculum for high school students in surrounding districts. Dr. Gil's research interests include making mathematics accessible to students and cultivating math identities, alongside exploring preservice teachers’ decision making and teacher agency. She co-founded a research group focused on innovations in mathematics teacher preparation. Currently, she is working on various projects aimed at examining how preservice teachers make pedagogical decisions in mathematics classrooms. Through her teaching at the undergraduate level, Dr. Gil emphasizes the complexities surrounding education in the United States and the necessity of culturally relevant pedagogies.
Brown University • Providence, RI
Teaches undergraduate education courses related to pedagogy, qualitative research, and STEM teaching and learning, designed to engage students with practice-based projects.
Department: Department of Economics