She is the Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and head of the Reading and Language Lab there.
Treiman's research focuses on spelling and reading, and especially on the linguistic factors that affect these processes.
[2] Alvin Liberman was her adviser for her senior honors thesis at Yale.
Jonathan Baron was her adviser for a thesis titled "The phonemic analysis ability of preschool children.
[6] In addition, Treiman has edited or co-edited several books on spelling and reading.