M i s s y  D .  C o s b y, PhD

​I believe in the importance of resilience. What I do not believe in is ignoring structural systems that require more resilience of some than others.
​~Dr. Beronda Montgomery
My name is  Missy D. Cosby and I am a research associate with PERL  at Michigan State University. Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I taught high school mathematics full-time for 16 years and continue part-time as a mathematics teacher. My current research interests center around the impact of societal discourses around race and gender for Black girls and women in mathematics as well as issues of identity and self-efficacy for two year college transfer science majors.  

I am also a wife, mother,  reader, runner,  and "reality" television consumer.  I am the latter only because I am interested in how humans interact, react, respond, learn, change, and grow in a variety of social contexts.