In the mid-1980s, armed with my master’s degree in social work (from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bombay, India), I began working as a research assistant on intervention projects focused on improving the educational achievement levels…
My research has broadly focused on the experiences of immigrant youth and students of color to understand how school institutions might better help them realize their promise.
Mary Hermes' research focuses on language revitalization and how it can connect people to the land and the planet. She explores different ways of knowing and being through feminist and indigenous lenses.
My research and teaching interests focus on culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education in general, and immigrant education in particular.
