Visiting Scholar Speaker Series: Roland Sintos Coloma

To enrich Penn GSE’s ongoing dialogues around this year’s One Book, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas, national scholars have been invited to share their insightful research. Talks will center on the intersectionality of the book’s themes and our GSE academic divisions (HDQM, POLS, ELX, LTL). Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to attend.

Roland Sintos Coloma is a professor of teacher education at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His research examines the cultural politics of difference in education with a focus on race, class, gender, and sexuality from historical, intersectional, and transnational frameworks. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, Roland was a high school English teacher, minority student affairs professional, and community organizer prior to becoming an academic.