Seminar participants are graduate students who have completed some core courses in the Language, Literacy and Culture program or in related School of education programs. Most of them are currently working on their own research have published or are close to publish articles. Here is a description of their profiles. Please refer to their web pages for more information.

| Juan Pablo Jimenez | Maria Eugenia Lozano | Ruth Harman |

| Aaron Kuntz | Jordene Hale | Yulia Davidova-Stone | Pierre Orelus |

| Margaret Boyko | Eugene Kang | Kristen French | Luisa Maria Rojas |

Juan Pablo is a native of Colombia. He is a second year student in the Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral program at the School of Education UMass-Amherst. His research interests focus on the application of informational technology in the development of digital equity and second language literacy and acquisition. He holds a Master from Washington State University in Foreign Language and Literature. Currently, he works as a Project Assistant for ACCELA (Access to Content through Critical English Language Acquistion). He is in charge of technology training for other Project Assistants.

Juan Pablo's Home Page
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~jimenez/

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Ruth Harman is a native of Ireland. She is a third year LLC doctoral student. Her research interests are literacy and language development in urban middle school settings, critical performative pedagogy, and the impact of macro level policies and decisions on micro level teaching practices. She currently works as a Project Assistant for ACCELA and in this capacity she works collaboratively with teachers in middle schools in Springfield, MA.


Ruth's Home Page
http://people.umass.edu/rharman/

Eugenie is a third-year doctoral student in the Language, Literacy & Culture program. She holds Master’s degrees in East Asian History from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and in Education from Harvard University. She was
born in the Bronx but having lived on the East and West Coast, as well as internationally, “home” for her is truly a social construction. She is a former high school history teacher and currently teaches “Introduction to Multicultural Education” at UMASS Amherst and “Comparative Education: Japan and the United States” at Trinity College. Broadly speaking, her research interests fall into the areas of critical multicultural education, identity, and achievement. Currently she is conducing ethnographic research at an urban high school in Western Massachusetts.

Jordene Hale is a native of the United States. She is a third year part-time student at the Language,Literacy and Culture doctoral program at the School of Education UMass-Amherst. Her interests focus on teachers in urban districts. She is also an 8th grade ESL Science teacher in Holyoke. She enjoys spending time with her two teenage daughters, cooking, and theater.

 

Kristen French is a third year student in the Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests include critical literacy practices particularly through critical performative pedagogy, as well as critical multicultural education and teacher education. Kristen’s Blackfoot/ Gros Ventre heritage and Indigenous teaching
experience has led her to pursue issues in education through a decolonizing theoretical lens. She is currently working on an ethnographic study focusing on student and teacher empowerment in an urban elementary school where she is a theater and writing teacher.

Luisa is from Lima, Peru. She is a third year student at LLC doctoral program at the School of Education UMASS-Amherst. Her interests focus on Human Rights and Gender Discourse related to linguistic oppression and the convergence of cultural studies and language education. She holds a Master from the Université du Québec à Montreal in Literary Studies. Currently, she works as a Visiting Instructor at the Spanish Department, Mount Holyoke College.

Ioulia Stone is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the School of Education, University of MA, Amherst. She holds a Master in Foreign Language Teaching from Teacher Training College, Tomsk State University, Russia. Ioulia has been teaching English as a Foreign and Second language at the college level. Currently, she works as a Project Assistant for ACCELA (Access to Content through Critical English Language Acquistion). Ioulia's current research focuses on academic goals and identity construction of community college ESL students with relation to the Russian-speaking refugee comunity in Western Massachusetts.

email: davydova@educ.umass.edu

Pierre is a native of Haiti. He is a second year student at the Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral program at the School of Education UMass-Amherst. His interests focus o

Margaret is a native of Scotland. She is in the second year of studies in the LLC program. She took her Masters degree in BEM at Umass in 2003. She holds a position as Executive Director of an English as a Second Language program based in Palmer Library. She is a PA in the LLC program, charged with creating self-study resources and a complete practice MTEL test for students who wish to become certified as ELL teachers. In addition, Margaret is an Alexander teacher and maintains a practice in Amherst. She is interested in the impact of language on teaching and the ways in which an effective teacher uses language as a pedagogical tool.

J. Andres is a native of Medellin, Colombia. He is a Foreign Language Teaching Specialist from the University of Antioquia, and he holds a Master's degree in TESL from West Chester University (PA). His current research interests center around alternative/radical pedagogies, overdeterminist class theory and discourse analysis specially as it relates to the language of New Capitalism and its contribution to the discursive construction of pedagogic, and classed identities in higher education institutions. Currently, he is teaching at the Community College level as an ESL teacher where he hopes to conduct his dissertation. He is also an ACCELA Project assistant working with teachers on developing their research and pedagogical interests.

Personal Web page: http://people.umass.edu/jramirez

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