Professional Biography
Peggy Hickman completed her Ph.D. in Multicultural Special Education at the University of Texas, Austin. She has two master’s degrees: an M.Ed. in Elementary/ Bilingual Education from Arizona State University and a second M.Ed. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. While in Texas she coordinated local and national research projects on emergent reading in English and Spanish. She has published articles in Learning Disabilities Quarterly, Exceptional Children, Teaching Exceptional Children, and The Reading Teacher, and is the author of a book published by the International Reading Association on working with ELLs (specifically, teaching vocabulary and comprehension to ELLs in primary grades). In addition, Dr. Hickman taught school-aged students for nine years including students in pre-kindergarten through second grade in monolingual English and bilingual inclusive settings.
Her research interests include multicultural special education, early literacy/bi-literacy, and educational leadership in diverse cultural and linguistic environments, in relation to general and special education. She has taught undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses on these topics for the past 10 years, and consults and presents locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
