Faculty

Academic Interests: The sociocultural context of teaching and learning; critical literacy theory; second language acquisition.
Research: Urban school reform; immigration and education

Honors: Recent:

• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2002-03; Oxford University Round Table Participant, 2002; White House Commission on Education for educational contribution to the Dominican population in N.Y., 1997
• Recent papers presented internationally include Centro Linguistica, Santiago de Cuba,(2003), Instituto Technológico de Santo Domingo (2002), University of Amsterdam, (1999); University of Warwick, U.K. (1999).

Publications: Recent:

• Reinventing Education in the New Geography" In J. Miller and J. Grocci, (eds.) On Becoming a Productive University: Strategies for Reducing Costs and Increasing Quality.(2005)
• Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Classroom.(2003) (New edition to appear 2005);
• "Identity Resolution and Educational Achievement in the Second Language Classroom." In Punto 7 Review: A Journal of Marginal Discourse.(1996)