Rate My Professor Priyanka Agarwal

Her research focuses on student participation and agency in mathematical problem posing, productive disciplinary engagement in mathematics and science, equity in mathematics education, collective agency in collaborative learning, and gendered epistemic injustice in K-12 mathematics. Agarwal has earned notable awards, including the Inclusive Mathematics Environments Early Career Fellowship (2019), membership in the Mindset Scholars Network funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael E. Martinez Award for Outstanding Research and Service from UC Irvine (2018), the University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (2018), the Dissertation Fellowship Award from College Preparatory Mathematics (2018), and the Research Partnership Grant from the California Education Research Association (2017). Key publications include "Multidimensional noticing for equity: Theorizing mathematics teachers’ systems of noticing to disrupt inequities" (Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2022, with van Es, Hand, and Sandoval); "Integrating power to advance the study of connective and productive disciplinary engagement in mathematics and science" (Cognition and Instruction, 2019, with Sengupta-Irving); "Beyond tracking and detracking: The dimensions of organizational differentiation in schools" (Sociology of Education, 2019, with Domina et al.); "Conceptualizing perseverance in problem solving as collective enterprise" (Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 2017, with Sengupta-Irving); and "Professional sense-makers: Instructional specialists in contemporary schooling" (Educational Researcher, 2015, with Domina, Lewis, and Hanselman). She has presented refereed conference proceedings at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (2020) and served on the Faculty Hiring and Search Committee (2020-2023) and Racial Equity Fund Committee (2020) at UW-Madison's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Cognition and Instruction and Educational Studies in Mathematics. Invited talks include the Lucas Educational Research Engagement Symposium (2021).