IU Logo
shim School of Education logo
shim		 shim
Background
Title image

Mary Benson McMullen

Education Background

  • Ph.D., Child Development, April 1992, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; doctoral dissertation, Development of adaptive symbolic problem solving in children between the ages of two-and-a-half and three years. Research Director: Carol Anderson Darling, Ph.D.; defended March 1992.
  • M.S., Child Development, December 1987, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Master's Thesis, Attribution style, self-esteem and burnout in preschool teachers: Helplessness in helping professionals. Research Director: Murray Krantz, Ph.D.; defended October, 1987.
  • B.S., Physical Science, June 1981, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Professional Background

2007 to present Professor of Early Childhood Education, Bloomington, Indiana

2005 to present Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Education, Indiana University

2001 to 2007    Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

1995 to 2001    Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

1993 to 1995    Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Curriculum & Instruction, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1994-95) and Supervisor of Student Teachers (1994-95); Part-time Instructor for IUB Departments of Psychology (1993-94), Applied Health Sciences (1993-95), and Counseling & Educational Psychology (1994), and Math Instructor for IUB's Groups Program for first generation minority college students (1993)

Prior to Indiana University   Preschool Teacher (1990-91) and Director (1991-94) of Parents Day Out, First United Methodist Church, Bloomington, Indiana; Mentor/Parent Trainer for Homemaker Program, State of Florida with court-referred families (1986-87); Parent Educator, Teenage Parent Program, Lean County, Florida (1987-89); Preschool Teacher, Magic Years Preschool, (1984-87), Tallahassee, Florida
shim