
Marisel Torres-Crespo
Assistant
Professor of
Education and
Director of the
Onica Prall Child
Development
Laboratory School
Tel: (301) 696-3416
E-mail: torres-crespo@hood.edu
Office: Onica Prall Child Development Laboratory School, Room 105
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: 12:30- 2 p.m.
Biography
Dr. Marisel N. Torres-Crespo received her BA and MA degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from the University of Puerto Rico and her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction Early Childhood Education from Penn State University. She has been teaching at college level since 2002 in universities in Puerto Rico and also in Penn State, and worked as an Academic Consultant for Publishing Companies and Head Start. Her research interests are play, arts, gender roles, STEM standards - in early childhood, and multiculturalism.