Annemarie Hindman

Annemarie Hindman is a professor of special/inclusive education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hindman studies how young children build foundational skills, including language, literacy, and social competence, throughout the first years of life and during the transition to formal schooling. Her career began as a teacher aide in Head Start, after which she became a Head Start literacy coach and then entered academia. Today, much of her work focuses on communities in poverty and centers around three strands: professional development interventions for pre- and inservice early and elementary educators; classroom-aligned, culturally sustaining family interventions; and secondary analysis of large-scale, national and international datasets. Hindman earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a master’s degree in developmental psychology and PhD in education and psychology from the University of Michigan. She has authored more than 75 publications and currently serves as PI or Co-PI on more than $20 million in grant-funded projects.