Andrea Tartaro

Andrea Tartaro

Daniel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Chair

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Andrea Tartaro is Daniel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She earned her Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint Ph.D. in Computer Science and Communication Studies, at Northwestern University and her B.A. in Computer Science at Brown University. Dr. Tartaro conducts human-centered design research to support education and behavior change. Her recent work focuses on evolving Computer Science as a liberal arts discipline and innovating STEM education. She has worked with over 50 undergraduate students as well as collaborators in History, Communication Studies, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, and Mathematics. She has also collaborated across institutions with researchers at Bard College, Union College, University of California San Diego, University of Washington, and University of Minnesota, and as part of the Association for Computing Machinery Computer Science Special Interest Group's Committee on Computing Education in Liberal Arts Colleges.

Education

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • B.A., Brown University

Research

  • Liberal Arts Computing
  • STEM Education
  • Human-centered Design

Publications

  • Teresco, J.D., Tartaro, A., Holland-Minkley, A., Braught, G., Barnard, J., & Baldwin, D. (2022). CS Curricular Innovations with a Liberal Arts Philosophy. SIGCSE ’22: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 537-543. ACM Press.
  • Davis, J., Tartaro, A., & VanDeGrift, T. (2021). Demystifying the Tenure-Track Faculty Search in Computer Science. SIGCSE ’21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 844-850. ACM Press.
  • Kawas, S., Yuan, Y. DeWitt, A. Jin, Q., Kirchner, S., Bilger, A., Grantham, E., Kientz, J.A., Tartaro, A., & Yarosh, S. (2020). Another Decade of IDC Research: Examining and Reflecting on Values and Ethics. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children. ACM Press.

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