Wendy Mages

Awards

• Arts & Learning SIG Dissertation Award, American Educational Research Association Arts & Learning Special Interest Group 2011
• Distinguished Dissertation Award, American Alliance for Theatre and Education 2009

Performances

• Wendy K. Mages performs at storytelling events in the US and abroad. For more information about her storytelling and to see videos of her performances at The Moth please visit her storytelling Web site by clicking on the "Wendy Mages: Storyteller" link under "Social Links" on the upper right side of this page.

Grants

• Fulbright Specialist Grant (2016) received a Fulbright Fellowship to collaborate with educators in Austria on a project that integrates educational drama and theater into teacher-training curricula as a pedagogical approach to enhance foreign-language instruction within a teacher-preparation program.
• $50,000 Head Start Research Scholars Dissertation Grant wrote a grant to fund my dissertation: “Language and Theory of Mind Development within the Context of a Head Start Theatre-In-Education Program."
• $15,000 Commission on Independent Colleges and University (cIcu) Network Grant wrote the application and budget for a grant awarded to the Mercy College School of Education to support faculty development and student success.
• $3,000 Mercy College Faculty Development Grant wrote a grant to fund her participation at the University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Boot Camp.
• $3,000 Mercy College Faculty Development Grant wrote a grant to fund a research project entitled, "Drama in Teacher Education: An International Perspective."
• $2,000 worth of McGraw-Hill Education Children's Books designed an initiative to distribute picture books to the Head Start children who receive health screenings at the Mercy College Mobile Health Vehicle.