and their research interests
Alyssa Brumis
Media’s portrayal of marginalized groups, social inequality, institutionalized inequality, public discourse and its influence on perception and intolerance, social media and discrimination, social movements
Laurel Burggraf Bassett
Ossian/Fenian cycle, oral/written traditions, Samuel Johnson’s Literary Club, reliability of academic apparatus, intercultural encounters in the eighteenth century
Jessica Burstrem
Resistance by way of social movements, popular culture, film, literature, gender & mothering studies, Black cultural studies, American Indian studies, narrative time, representation, qualitative methodologies
Forrest Caskey
Social justice, race theory, language, power, education, identity
Deanna Cerquetti
Nneka Chisholm-Edwards
Ron Collins
Sociolinguistics; language, culture, and education; history of linguicism and the nature of linguistic bigotry; language ideology and dialect subordination; language variation theory; pragmatics of natural language
Sonya Crosby
Black women and work, intersectionality, critical race theory, women and leadership, higher education, Black feminism
Lavon Davis
Gatekeeping/access based on the intersection of race and language, educational linguistics, linguistic profiling, raciolinguistics, interpersonal communication, and conversational interaction/style
Justin Deprima
Adrianna Ebron
The misdiagnosis of ADHD among Brown and Black boys in K-5 education
Heidi Faust
Intersectionality, race, class, language, culture, and education, teacher education, TESOL, critical pedagogy, social justice in education, feminist epistemologies, contested concepts of community, identity, culture, nation, borders
Shani Fleming
Institutional accountability: recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in medical education; critical race theory
Jamie Gillan
Higher education, immigrant students, storytelling
Kyle Goehner
The Pathways Model in Community Colleges
Neisha-Anne Green
Keith Harmon
Inclusive excellence, underrepresentation, race and ethnicity, intervention programs, culture of higher education
Ronald (RJ) Harvilicz III
Coffee, cafe, culture, writing, identity
Adam Holden
Intercultural/international education, sustainability (environmental, social, economic), civic agency
Shahin Hossain
Poverty and unemployment in refugee camps, Islamophobia in Muslim majority countries, blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs, wealth inequality in education, infusing computational thinking in early childhood classroom, media portrayals of minorities, social media effects on youth, leadership in collaborative governance, managing public organizations
Michael Hunt
Seeks to bridge spirituality and STEM education by examining culturally nuanced resources for increasing self-esteem and incorporating spirituality in fostering math literacy
Anthony Hynes
Racial connectedness amongst transracial adoptees
Kristin Kelly
Literacy development, intersectionality, womanist pedagogy, mindfulness/spiritual identity, identity politics, Black feminism, social learning theory, and socio-psycholinguistics
Charlotte Keniston
The use of community based visual story work in movements for social change; digital storytelling, photovoice, community mapping, Participatory Action Research; food and land sovereignty; birth storytelling; community-led social change; ethical and mutually beneficial university-community collaborations
Felipe Kerschbaum
Second language acquisition, ESL/EFL, language teacher education, identity and language learning
John Lawton
The crossroads of participatory media, performativity, resistance, and movement building; how the structure of social media influences apolitical perceptions of digital activism
Gina Marie Lewis
Evan Lincove
Elaine MacDougall
Maria Manni
Chelsea Mays-Williams
Caylie Middleton
International education, intercultural competency training
Alyse Minter
Information behavior, intersectional feminism, critical race theory, language and literacy, digital diasporas, organization development, communities
Alison Morrow
Cultural studies, intercultural communication, comparative narrative analysis, media and communication studies, popular culture, television and film theory
Ngeri Nnachi-Azuewah
Inclusion, empowerment, code switching, human rights
Jacqueline Peng
Familial and school racial-ethnic socialization of biracial mixed & multiracial youth; academic & social outcomes for biracial and multiracial PK-12 students; multicultural education; teacher education & training
Dontae Phillips
The dynamics of families of color; genealogy and behavioral patterns of the family nucleus and how culture shifts have impeded the makeup of the family unit over time within an urban context; human ecology, education paradigms, and how emerging urbanization has influenced the holistic family nucleus
Lauren Pollak
Higher education, two-year and community colleges, composition placement practices, developmental education reform, integrated reading and writing, belonging, anti-racist grading and assessment, critical ethnography, intersectionality, community and place-based education
Tamisha Ponder
Cultural studies, youth activism and youth resistance, race on college campuses, student activism, Black women’s coping mechanisms, culturally responsive pedagogy, identity discourse in youth, Black feminism/womanism, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, gender studies in youth, LGBT, community participatory action research, Black feminist theory
Siobhan Quinn
Examination of community engagement mechanisms designed by anchor institutions within culturally complex communities. Specific interest in cultural arts centers and other programs promoting multicultural literacy through interdisciplinary programs in the arts and humanities
Chrissie Reilly
Kara Seidel
Language of disability in higher education; sociolinguistics; intersection of race and accessibility; educational policy
Dawn Shafer
First generation graduate students, educational inequality, cultural capital, qualitative research methods
Sonya Squires-Caesar
“Tangled Money Tales: A Life History Exploration of Childhood Money Messages”
Zareen Taj
Jackson Tucker
Rhetoric of labor, democracy, human rights; multimodal and metacognitive composition; accessibility and digital humanities; environmental justice
Shelly Washington
Black millennial feminism, diversity in the workplace, double consciousness, wealth inequality, social mobility, the intersection of personal and professional identities in social media, sex positivity
Caron Wildy
James Wright
Sergio Iñaki Zárate
Cultural studies, subcultures and popular music; the cultural uses of sound, ethnographic and archival work, visual studies, the practices of memory and preservation of musical cultures and subcultures; the relationship between creative practices, politics and affections, the bets on micropolitical resistance and social transformation, the affective turn and the cultural roles of affections