Faculty Scholarship Showcase

Alice Graham, Ph.D.

Professor | Education

Alice Tesch Graham, Ph.D., is a professor of special education at Salve Regina University. She earned her B.S. in special education from Florida State University in 1976, and both her M.Ed. (1980) and her Ph.D. in special education (1984) from the University of North Florida. 

Elaine Silva Mangiante, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Retired) | Education

Elaine Silva Mangiante, PhD, was an associate professor in the Education Department specializing in elementary science, engineering design, and mathematics education before retiring in 2024. Her previous teaching experience at the elementary level included serving as a professional development specialist with The Education Alliance at Brown University for educational reform in high-poverty districts. She was also a science specialist and mathematics curriculum coordinator for a K-8 school where she mentored early career teachers and received the state level Presidential Award for Excellence in Elementary Science Teaching. As a university teacher educator, her research interests included examining how teachers who work in high-poverty school districts plan for reform-based science education and create a collaborative climate for elementary students’ scientific discourse and engineering problem-solving. Her scholarly publications, presentations, and consulting work focus on effective teaching practices for science and engineering design education in urban schools, elementary science pedagogy for critical thinking, elementary students’ negotiation of engineering design ideas, purposeful on-going mentoring, and teacher development from novice to expert.

Holly Carrell Moore, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Education

For over 20 years, Dr. Holly Carrell Moore taught in public and private schools, serving in multiple roles including music teacher, librarian, instructional technology specialist, classroom teacher, and Head Start teacher. For over 10 years, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood education at University of Texas at Austin, Texas Woman's University, and Salve Regina University. She is in her fifth year of teaching early childhood education pre-service teachers here at Salve Regina.

Dr. Moore's research interests and experiences center around children's play and exploration (in both digital and analogue spaces), children's responses to picture books through play and drama, and family supports of young children engaged in remote learning during the pandemic. At present, she is working on a study of pre-service teachers' perceptions and practices and development of culturally responsive pedagogy and anti-bias education.

Tracy Pelkowski, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Education

As the coordinator of Salve Regina University’s secondary education program, Dr. Tracy Pelkowski’s research focuses on how to prepare culturally responsive educators. Her current study investigates Salve students’ perceptions of their racial identity development and critical consciousness during the course Introduction to Race and Inequality in American Education. Year one of a longitudinal study, her research will investigate students’ development of culturally responsive pedagogy as they progress through the secondary education program.

Dr. Pelkowski received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1992. She went on to receive her M.Ed. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) in social and comparative analysis in education from the University of Pittsburgh.

Martha McCann Rose, Ph.D.

Professor, Faculty Fellow | Education

Martha McCann Rose is a professor of education and fellow at The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University. She earned her B.S. in English education (1978) and her M.Ed. in special education (1991) from Providence College, and her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Connecticut in 1997.