Mara Alagic

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Mara Alagic is a Serbian mathematics educator and the editor-in-chief [1] of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts . She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Graduate Coordinator at Wichita State University. [2] [3] [4]

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Education

Alagic obtained her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, her Master's of Science in Mathematics and her PhD from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Her Master's thesis was on Category of Multivalued Mappings (Hypertopology). She completed her PhD in 1985 under the direction of Ðuro Kurepa; her dissertation title was Categorical Views of Some Relational Models. [5]

Books

Alagic is the co-author of the book Locating Intercultures: Educating for Global Collaboration (2010). In addition, with Glyn M. Rimmington of Wichita State University, Alagic wrote the book Third place learning: Reflective inquiry into intercultural and global cage painting (Information Age Publishing, 2012). [6]

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References

  1. "Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts" . Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  2. "Wichita University Faculty Page" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2018, retrieved 2018-12-12
  4. "Wichita University Graduate Coordinator" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  5. Mara Alagic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Martin, Judith N.; Nakayama, Thomas K. (2011), "Intercultural communication and dialectics revisited", in Nakayama, Thomas K.; Halualani, Rona Tamiko (eds.), The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 59–93, ISBN   9781444390674 . See in particular p. 74.