Research Areas

Research Areas: I am interested in understanding how to build research-practice-community partnerships for building equitable learning environments.

Research Areas: Racial Literacy; Diverse Literature for Children and Young Adolescents; Dialogic Space; Critical Literacy; Teaching Banned Books

Research Areas: qualitative methods; critical phenomenology; community-engaged and action research within counselor education; community-driven interventions within k-12 schools; Black and Indigenous students experiences within education

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Charter Schools; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Educator Preparation; Multicultural Competence; Learning Communities; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Sociolinguistics; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods

Research Areas: Latinx/Chicanx K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation; Latinx Education and Immigration in the U.S. South; Teacher Identity and Subjectivity; Social Studies Education; Critical Geography; (post)Qualitative Methods

Research Areas: Cultural Studies; Disability Studies; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education