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Professor Emeritus of Education
- Educational linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Educational ethnography and anthropology
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
- Multilingualism and language education policy
- Ethnography of language policy
- Indigenous education and language revitalization
Senior Lecturer
- (Im)migrants and schooling
- Civic engagement
- Anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia
- Citizenship and trans/nationalism
- Curriculum and pedagogy in international contexts
- School climate
- Educational development discourse
Senior Fellow
- Education reform at all levels of the education system
- Taking education reform and innovation to scale
- Educational programs and finance strategies to support less advantaged groups
- Globalization, international student mobility, and international education
Professor of Practice
- Qualitative research
- Practitioner research
- Participatory action research
- Post-colonial development research
- Institutional ethnography
- Sustainable leader & organization change
- Emergent design professional development
- Case studies as development strategy
Professor
- Academic governance and leadership in higher education
- Institutional mission
- Civic engagement and the democratic purposes of higher education
- Higher education reform
Professor
- International education and development
- Literacy, learning, and cognition in children, youth, and adults
- Language acquisition and multi-lingualism
- Educational technologies
- Educational psychology
Senior Fellow
- History of U.S. education
- Educational leadership
- School-community relationship
- Civic education
Professor
- Language assessment
- Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural learning and teaching
- Second language acquisition among young learners
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology
- Immigration, race relations, and education
- Citizenship, cultural politics, and national incorporation
- Class, socialization, and social stratification
- Social theory
- Ethnographic research
Assistant Professor
- Anthropology of education and politics
- Youth activism and cultural practices
- Community and student activism
- Africa and the African diaspora
- New media and popular culture
- Ethnographic, qualitative, and multimodal research methods
Senior Fellow
- Higher education governance
- Leadership and management
- Higher education trends
- Change management
- Trusteeship
Assistant Professor
- Poverty and child development
- Risk and resilience
- Early childhood education
- School readiness
- Teacher professional development
- Program evaluation