Board Member

Dr. Patricia Mathes

Advising Director

Patricia G. Mathes, Ph.D. is the Texas Instruments Chair of Reading; Professor of Teaching and Learning; and Director of the Institute for Reading Research within the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

Patricia G. Mathes, Ph.D. is the Texas Instruments Chair of Reading; Professor of Teaching and Learning; and Director of the Institute for Reading Research within the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

A former classroom and reading teacher, she received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Education and Human Development and has served on the faculties of Pediatrics at the University of Texas – Houston Medical School, the College of Education at Florida State University, and Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University.

Since 1991 she has been conducting large-scale classroom based reading intervention research with funding from multiple sources including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, as well as state agencies and foundations. She is also the recipient of several prodigious awards including: the 2005 Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association, the 2002 Interpretive Scholar award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2001 Distinguished Early Career Researcher award from the Council for Exceptional Children, and the 1999 Samuel A. Kirk award from Council for Exceptional Children Division of Learning Disabilities. She is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, and curricular materials related to reading and reading disabilities, accommodating academic diversity, and best practices for struggling readers. Likewise, she serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and provides nationwide teacher/staff development focused on translating research into practice.

She is also the parent of two high-school age children who are thriving at Yorktown School.