language, literacy, and culture (llc) phd program faculty

JOANN CRANDALL, Graduate Program Director

Language, Literacy and Culture Faculty

BICKEL, BEVERLY, Ph.D., UMBC; Globalized communication and culture, new media, social movements, critical pedagogy, qualitative research

GALINDO, CLAUDIA, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University; Educational theory and policy and comparative international education, educational inequality, sociology of education, education and demographic processes, immigration, the Latino population in the U.S.

MALLINSON, CHRISTINE, Ph.D., North Carolina State University; Race, class and gender inequality; regional, ethnic and gender variation in American English; sociolinguistics and social theory; research methodology

SAPER, CRAIG, Ph.D., University of Florida; History of reading and reading devices, networked art and poetry, online scholarship, narrative and biography, cultural theory, cultural interventions.

Affiliate Faculty by Departments

 

Africana Studies

ROBINSON, THOMAS N., JR., Ph.D., Howard University; Psychology, research methods

CHUKU, GLORIA, Ph.D., University of Nigeria (Nsukka);

American Studies

BELASCO, WARREN, Ph.D., University of Michigan; Popular and material culture, cultural history, food, future studies

BRYAN, KATHY S., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Education history and policy, gender equity in education, curriculum transformation, cultural conflict and transformation, literature and society

LOVIGLIO, JASON W., Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Popular culture, media studies, cultural history of mass media

BHALLA, TAMARA, Ph.D., University of Michigan; late 19th and 20th century multi-ethnic literatures, Asian American studies, feminist theory, multicultural discourse

Education

BERGE, ZANE L., Ph.D., Michigan State University; Training systems, distance education

BLUNCK, SUSAN M., Ph.D., University of Iowa; Science education, curriculum, systemic reform, science education professional development

CRANDALL, JOANN, Ph.D., Georgetown University; Literacy, language and public policy, immigrant education, second-language teaching, teacher development

LEE, DIANE M., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Human learning and cognition, research methods

NELSON, JOHN, Ph.D., McGill University; Adult language learning, ESL testing, measurement and evaluation, linguistics and ESL teaching, ESL instruction in K-12 education

RIVKIN, MARY S., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Early childhood education, outdoor play, environmental education

SCHAFFER, EUGENE C., Ed.D., Temple University; Curriculum and instruction, educational leadership

SCULLY, PATRICIA A., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Early childhood education, early literacy, environmental education

SHELTON, NANCY RANKIE, Ph.D., University of Florida; Elementary education, literacy

SHIN, JOAN, Ph.D., UMBC; Teaching English to Young Learners, EFL/ESL teacher education, online teacher education, virtual communities of practice, content instruction for English Language Learners

SHIN, SARAH J., Ph.D., University of Michigan; Bilingualism, bilingual education, language acquisition, second-language writing, language teacher training

YOUNG, PATRICIA A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; African-American literacy and technology, culture in instructional technology and design, race and ethnicity in education

English

BERMAN, JESSICA, Ph.D., University of Chicago; Comparative Studies in Literature

GWIAZDA, PIOTR K., Ph.D., New York University; 20th-century poetry, poetic history and theory, American literature and culture

MAHER, JENNIFER, Ph.D., Iowa State University; Rhetoric of technology, cultural theory, professional writing

MCCARTHY, LUCILLE, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Rhetoric and composition, writing in the professions, Latin-American literature, discourse analysis

SHIPKA, JODY, Ph.D., University of Illinois-Champaign; Rhetoric and composition, multi-modal discourse, activity theory, play theory

Gender and Women’s Studies

MCCANN, CAROLE, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz; Cultural studies of science, feminist theory, discourse analysis

History

LINDENMEYER, KRISTE, Ph.D.,

RUBIN, ANNE, Ph.D.,

Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication

FATIH, ZAKARIA, Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo; French

FIELD, THOMAS T., Ph.D., Cornell University; Sociolinguistics, literacy, textual analysis, French studies

KA, OMAR, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Sociolinguistics, phonology, African linguistics, Wolof language, French language

LARKEY, EDWARD, Ph.D., Humboldt Universtät; German popular culture, German ethnicity, GDR studies, political economy of culture

MEDINA LOPEZ PORTILLO, ADRIANA, Ph.D., UMBC; Intercultural communication, study abroad, conflict resolution, experiential learning

OSKOZ, ANA, Ph.D., University of Iowa; Second-language acquisition, technology in foreign language classroom, online chat

POGGIO, SARA Z., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Sociology, Latin American societies, Hispanics in the United States

PROVENCHER, DENIS, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; French civilization and cultural studies; language, gender and sexuality; conversation and discourse analysis, intercultural communication

SINNIGEN, JOHN H., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Modern Spanish and Latin American narrative, ideologies and literature, political economy of culture

SCHWARTZ, ANA MARIA, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Language teaching and curriculum development, learning strategies, media, heritage Spanish speakers

STOLLE-MCALLISTER, JOHN, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Cultural studies, social movements, Latin American popular culture

YOUNG, STEVEN, Ph.D., University of Chicago; Historical phonology, Slavic and Baltic linguistics

Professional Education and Training

HASEGAWA, KAZUMI, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Research methods, intercultural communication, culture and marketing

HODELL, CHARLES K., Ph.D., UMBC; Instructional systems design, labor education, campaign development and strategies

Shriver Center

TAYLOR, Joby, Ph.D., UMBC

Sociology and Anthropology

ADLER, MARINA A., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Social science methodology and statistics, cross-national gender, work and family issues; the welfare state; social policy in international perspective

CHAPIN, BAMBI, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Anthropology

CHARD, SARAH, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Medical anthropology, urban anthropology, anthropology of gender

LOTTES, ILSA L, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Research methods, statistics, gender roles, cross-national work on women’s status and reproductive health

PINCUS, FRED L., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Race and ethnic relations, sociology of education, higher education policy

ROTHENSTEIN, WILLIAM G., Ph.D. Cornell University; Sociology of occupations, medical sociology, formal organizations, medical history

RUBINSTEIN, ROBERT L., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; Cultural and medical anthropology, anthropology of aging, gerontology, gender, qualitative research methods

SECKIN, GUL, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Medical sociology, health communication, political sociology, ethnic conflict