Ramona R. Santa Maria
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-3250
Campus Address: Chase Hall 102
santamrr@buffalostate.edu
Before coming to Buffalo State in 1999, Ramona SantaMaria worked at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. She holds a master's degree in educational computing from Buffalo State and is working on a PhD, concentrating in the area of Critical and Cultural Studies of Information Technology, within the discipline Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation topic looks at how high school students who attend under-resourced schools narrate their experiences with and observations of computer technology after intensive exposure in a computer classroom.
Her other research interests surround the cultural influences that young women face when acquiring technology skills in school, as well as the limits and possibilities that Web 2.0 technology bring to the K-16 classroom.
SantaMaria has won several awards for excellence in teaching, presents research regionally and nationally; she is a New York State certified teacher in the areas of Business Education and as a School to Work Coordinator.
