Demetra Evangelou holds PhD and MEd degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Early Childhood Education. Her graduate advisors were Professor Lilian G. Katz and Professor Bernard Spodek. Her current research interests focus on teacher education, mixed-age groups in early childhood education and issues of gender and pedagogy. She has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses at Purdue University, Aristotle University, and Democritus University in Greece.

Selected presentations/publications

Evangelou, D. and L. K Katz, (2001). Gender and early school performance: proximal and distal dimensions. Proceedings of the 7^th International Learning Conference, Spetses, Greece, July 4-8.

Evangelou, D. (1997). Early childhood education in Greece: coexistence of tradition and modernity Challenged. Symposium on Early Childhood Education (in Honor of Dr. Bernard Spodek), University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Nov. 9-10.

Evangelou, D. (1996). Culture and the Greek kindergarten curriculum. Journal of Early Child Development and Care, 123, 31-46.

Evangelou, D. (1990). Παρατηρώντας και καταγράφοντας τη συμπεριφορά των παιδιών. Athens, Greece: Gutenberg.Translation of the book, Observing and recording the behavior of young children. Cohen, D., Stern, B., & Balaban, N. NY: Teachers College Press. (Original work published in 1983).

Katz, L.G., Evangelou, D., & Hartman, J.A. (1989). The case of mixed-age groups in early childhood education. Monograph of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Washington, DC.