Ryan M. Rish (he/him/his)

My research interests involve the literacy practices of adolescents and adults, especially in regard to how those practices relate to the institutions, social spaces, and geographic places in which they are enacted. This research includes investigations within and across classrooms, online spaces, and communities guided by concerns for learning with participants how to make learning opportunities more equitable for marginalized youth and how to engage students with critical considerations of their social worlds and local communities.

• PhD, Ohio State University, Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies
• MEd, Ohio State University, English Education
• BA, Walsh University, English & Philosophy

• Schindel, A., Rish, R.M., Ramdath, K.*, Mawer, D.*, Higgins, C.*, & Christiano, M.* (2022). Sustaining relationships through critical place inquiry. Journal of School & Society, 8(2), 37-44.

• Proctor, C., & Rish, R.M. (2025). The song need not remain the same: AI literacies in the lives of youth. In S. Abas, J.D. DeHart, D. Gibbons Pyles, & R.A. Mora (Eds.), Reimagining Literacy in the Age of AI: Theory and Practice (pp. 135-151). CRC Press.
• Rish, R.M., & Rish, E.M. (2024). Virtual bike racing: Contrastive case studies of embodied gaming. In H. Gerber (Ed.), The literacies of esports ecosystem (pp. 144-163). Boston, MA: Brill | Sense.

• Rish, R., Waight, N., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Kahveci, E., Johnson, G., Marks, D.R., Ianni, A., Wisoff, S., & Huffman, K. (2025). Mobilizing youth STEM learning trajectories on bicycles. Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (pp. 1958-1962). Helsinki, Finland.
• Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Robert, S., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.R. (2025). Portraitures of STEMcyclists youth: Joy and liberation for critical and transformative STEM learning. Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (pp. 2950-2952). Helsinki, Finland.

• Mozaffari, F., Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J. N., Scheuneman, S., & Goehrig, F. (2026, April). From remembering to repositioning: A returning youth’s languaging of memory, belonging, and future possibility. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. (paper presentation);
• Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J. N., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., & Marks, R. (2026, April). Youth translating the STEM bikes and biking ecosystem through friendship, ownership, history, and joyful play. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Seattle, WA. (paper presentation);
• Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Gohrig, F., Jackson, D., Robert, S., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.R. (2025, June). Portraitures of STEMcyclists youth: Joy and liberation for critical and transformative STEM learning. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland. (poster presentation);
• Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.M. (2025, March). Bicycles and STEM: Unearthing Black and Brown genius. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Harbor, MD. (paper presentation);

• Rish, R., Waight, N., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Kahveci, E., Johnson, G., Marks, D.R., Ianni, A., Wisoff, S., & Huffman, K. (2025, June). Mobilizing youth STEM learning trajectories on bicycles. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland. (paper presentation);

• STEMCyclists in their Community: Place, Pedal Power, and Play; Foundation and Research Organization; Ralph Wilson Foundation, Project Play; Awarded; (05/20/2026-08/20/2026)
• STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes.; Foundation and Research Organization; Spencer Foundation; Awarded; (06/20/2025-08/20/2026)

• STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes; Federal Government; National Science Foundation; Awarded; (01/01/2024-06/30/2027)
• Citizen Science Teachers: University at Buffalo (UB) Noyce Residency Scholars; Federal Government; National Science Foundation; Awarded; (07/01/2021-06/30/2026)

• STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes; Federal Government; National Science Foundation; Awarded; (01/15/2025-07/14/2025)

• Editorial Board Member, Research in the Teaching of English
  Jun 2022-present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
  Aug 2017-present

• LGBTQIA+ Advocacy & Leadership Award Selection Committee, NCTE
  Jan 2025-Nov 2025
• Media Literacy Award Selection Committee, NCTE
  Jul 2022-Jul 2024
• Chair, Early Career Award Committee: Media, Culture, and Learning SIG, AERA
  Nov 2019-Mar 2020