Meet Your Faculty

Director, Graduate and Advanced Programs
ahemmings@edgewood.edu
(608) 663-3248

Annette Hemmings received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1992. She is a Professor in the School of Education who teaches graduate-level research courses and also serves as Director of Graduate and Advanced Programs.

Before coming to Edgewood College in 2011, Dr. Hemmings was a professor and researcher at the University of Cincinnati where she conducted ethnographic studies in public high schools on the cultural adaptations of racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse students, teachers’ classroom authority and other topics.

She has several publications including three books - Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents, Classroom Authority: Theory, Research and Practice and Urban Public High Schools: Foundations and Possibilities.

Associate Professor
cperry@edgewood.edu
(608) 663-4254

Cynthia Perry Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Education at Edgewood College. She teaches Infancy and Childhood, Exceptional Children and Youth, Helping Relationship, Literature for Childhood through Early Adolescence, and supervises student teachers. As a consultant for home-school teachers, she provides staff development, consultation, curriculum development and instructional methodologies, modifications and reading strategies for special needs children, and administers standardized testing for the teachers. Additionally, Cynthia speaks to women throughout the country at churches, women's ministry conferences, and other venues on such subjects as ministry, training and development of teachers and parents of special needs children, and spiritual growth. She also speaks, along with her husband, Dwight, at Becoming One, their increasingly popular national conference on marriage. She has written in such areas as prayer, women's ministry, and special education. Her chapter, "Kids in Constant Motion: How Can the Church Work More Effectively with Children with ADD/ADHD," in Building Unity in the Church in the New Millennium (Moody Press), is a landmark work in the area of the church reaching out to those with special needs.

Director, Clinical Experiences
dhagerman@edgewood.edu
(608) 663-3259